{"id":30773,"date":"2017-04-29T03:30:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T03:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/anxiety\/30773\/"},"modified":"2017-04-29T03:30:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T03:30:20","slug":"methodist-top-court-rules-against-lesbian-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/30773","title":{"rendered":"Methodist Top Court Rules Against Lesbian Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><p>United Methodist Top Court Declines to Immediately Remove Lesbian Activist Bishop, but Makes Clear: “Openly Homosexual and Partnered” People Cannot be Clergy, Bishops\n \nContact: Jeff Walton, Institute on Religion &amp; Democracy, 202-682-4131, 202-413-5639 cell, jwalton@TheIRD.org \n\nWASHINGTON, April 28, 2017 \/Christian Newswire\/ — Today the Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church issued a complex, highly anticipated decision provoked by openly partnered lesbian activist Karen Oliveto Source: Institute on Religion &amp; Democracy<\/p><p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>United Methodist Top Court Declines to Immediately Remove Lesbian Activist Bishop, but Makes Clear: “Openly Homosexual and Partnered” People Cannot be Clergy, Bishops<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Jeff Walton, Institute on Religion &amp; Democracy, 202-682-4131, 202-413-5639 cell, jwalton@TheIRD.org <\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, April 28, 2017 \/Christian Newswire\/ — Today the Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church issued a complex, highly anticipated decision provoked by openly partnered lesbian activist Karen Oliveto Source: Institute on Religion &amp; Democracy<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}