{"id":210,"date":"2010-11-30T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godweb.org\/wordpress\/?p=210"},"modified":"2011-09-06T10:51:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T14:51:39","slug":"210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godweb.org\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Gay Priests?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godweb.org%2F%3Fp%3D210&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p><strong>New Vatican Document Bans Gay Priests<\/strong><br \/>\nIn a new statement that bears the signature of Pope Benedict, the Vatican has announced its intention to ban gay men from the priesthood. The pronouncement is likely to raise further questions about the authority of the papacy, about the ordination of gay men (not to mention women), and about the future of a church that appears increasingly resistant to reform.<\/p>\n<p>We look at the issues:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.godweb.org\/papalelection.htm\">A Democracy Movement in the Church?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.godweb.org\/papacy.htm\">The history, current status, and future of the Papacy.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.godweb.org\/infallible.htm\">Is the Pope Infallible?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.godweb.org\/debate.htm\">On the Ordination of Homosexuals: The Debate Continues<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godweb.org%2F%3Fp%3D210&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Vatican Document Bans Gay Priests In a new statement that bears the signature of Pope Benedict, the Vatican has announced its intention to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[115,179,70],"tags":[11,229,442],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-communities","category-homosexuality","category-hot-topics","tag-christianity","tag-ethics","tag-homosexuality"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gay Priests? 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