{"id":17176,"date":"2012-08-17T00:38:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T04:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17176"},"modified":"2012-08-17T00:38:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T04:38:38","slug":"united-church-of-canada-elects-homosexual-moderator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/united-church-of-canada-elects-homosexual-moderator\/","title":{"rendered":"United Church of Canada elects homosexual moderator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gc41.ca\/news\/gary-paterson-elected-moderator\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Vancouver-based minister who describes himself as a passionate preacher and poet, the Rev. Dr. Gary Paterson was elected Moderator of The United Church of Canada by the 41st General Council on August 16, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Paterson becomes the first openly gay leader of a major Christian denomination. At a news conference following his election, he rejoiced that his sexual orientation has been a non-issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of <em>course<\/em> his &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221; (was there ever a more meaningless euphemism) is a \u201cnon-issue\u201d: the United Church of Canada is a <em>non-issue<\/em>. No-one particularly cares what it thinks and no-one particularly cares who moderates its vacuous blatherings.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Rev. Dr. Gary Paterson; I trust you plan on going down with the ship.<em><br \/>\nh\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/reasonfaith.blogspot.ca\/2012\/08\/openly-gay-as-non-issue.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Reasonable Faith<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: A Vancouver-based minister who describes himself as a passionate preacher and poet, the Rev. Dr. Gary Paterson was elected Moderator of The United Church of Canada by the 41st General Council on August 16, 2012. Paterson becomes the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/united-church-of-canada-elects-homosexual-moderator\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[1307,1588],"class_list":["post-17176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-church","tag-rev-dr-gary-paterson","tag-united-church-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}