{"id":735,"date":"2014-05-21T10:20:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T17:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2014-05-21T10:20:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T17:20:25","slug":"methodists-and-same-sex-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/21\/methodists-and-same-sex-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Methodists and Same-Sex Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an unlikely source comes a surprisingly good (fair) explanation of the situation in the United Methodist Church regarding same-sex unions:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7vAQxrAU6tE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(The source is <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/reasontv\">non-sectarian public-policy think tank<\/a>, and I think they should be congratulated for wading into a theological argument to try to help explain it. Their position seems to be pro-SSM but they are reasonably fair in explaining, or at least briefly summarizing, the anti-SSM position.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an unlikely source comes a surprisingly good (fair) explanation of the situation in the United Methodist Church regarding same-sex unions: (The source is non-sectarian public-policy think tank, and I think they should be congratulated for wading into a theological argument to try to help explain it. Their position seems to be pro-SSM but they &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/21\/methodists-and-same-sex-unions\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[603,604,602,53,54,60],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-methodist","tag-reason","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-sexuality","tag-society","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}