{"id":3406,"date":"2013-02-25T11:45:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T19:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2013-02-25T10:14:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T18:14:25","slug":"two-different-takes-on-church-sexuality-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/two-different-takes-on-church-sexuality-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Two different takes on church sexuality debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (UMNS) \u2014 The Rev. Adam Hamilton, senior pastor, United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kan., recently wrote a column in the Washington Post in which he said he believes Christians in the future \u201cwill read the Bible\u2019s passages regarding homosexuality as all Christians today read the Bible\u2019s passages on slavery.\u201d <!--more-->Leaders of Good News, an unofficial United Methodist caucus, responded, saying its leaders \u201cbelieve the Bible\u2019s teaching on sexual morality and God\u2019s intention is based on far more than a few isolated verses.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kintera.org\/TR.asp?a=6dICINNmE4KAJKPyA&amp;s=ctIOJ2MPIjISIdNTItF&amp;m=ihJRKVPxH9LOLbL\" target=\"_blank\">Read Hamilton\u2019s column<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kintera.org\/TR.asp?a=9qJIIWPyG7JGLUNLG&amp;s=ctIOJ2MPIjISIdNTItF&amp;m=ihJRKVPxH9LOLbL\" target=\"_blank\">Read Good News column<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Image Source: http:\/\/www.nationalcathedral.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (UMNS) \u2014 The Rev. Adam Hamilton, senior pastor, United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kan., recently wrote a column in the Washington Post in which he said he believes Christians in the future \u201cwill read the Bible\u2019s passages regarding homosexuality as all Christians today read the Bible\u2019s passages on slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":3407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[3],"tags":[199,59,198,21,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-3406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-umns","8":"tag-good-news","9":"tag-hamilton","10":"tag-inaguration","11":"tag-scripture","12":"tag-sexuality"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130122_pips_333.jpg?fit=2234%2C1790&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-SW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}