{"id":1259,"date":"2011-01-17T15:12:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T22:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2011-01-17T15:12:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T22:12:55","slug":"the-gaylesbian-agenda-didn%e2%80%99t-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"The gay\/lesbian agenda didn\u2019t work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Diocese of Newark is steadily losing members and money. One third of the congregations are served by part-time clergy (with the trend continuing).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWhile the diocese and [former Bishop John Shelby] Spong garnered significant publicity for ordaining an AIDS ridden priest who later died, the diocese has not turned around under the slightly more moderate Mark Beckwith.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtueonline.org\/portal\/modules\/news\/article.php?storyid=13769\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Diocese of Newark is steadily losing members and money. One third of the congregations are served by part-time clergy (with the trend continuing). \u201cWhile the diocese and [former Bishop John Shelby] Spong garnered significant publicity for ordaining an AIDS ridden priest who later died, the diocese has not turned around under the slightly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}