{"id":199117,"date":"2007-09-05T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/05\/bigots-on-holiday\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T04:21:00","slug":"bigots-on-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/05\/bigots-on-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigots on Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I am loath to comment on the internal workings of someone else&#8217;s religion, but in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/30\/AR2007083002033.html\">this case<\/a>, I&#8217;ll make an exception.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>NAIROBI, Aug. 30 &#8212; Two American priests were consecrated Thursday as Anglican bishops in Kenya, the latest in a string of conservative priests who are defecting to African churches in a dispute over gay clergy.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Atwood of Texas and William Murdoch of Massachusetts left the Episcopal Church &#8212; the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion &#8212; because it allows the ordination of gay priests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People who feel that they have to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">hate<\/span> in order to serve God should not be delivering your mail, much less seeing to your spiritual well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I am loath to comment on the internal workings of someone else&#8217;s religion, but in this case, I&#8217;ll make an exception. NAIROBI, Aug. 30 &#8212; Two American priests were consecrated Thursday as Anglican bishops in Kenya, the latest in a string of conservative priests who are defecting to African churches in a dispute over &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}