{"id":504,"date":"2010-01-21T14:12:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T21:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=504"},"modified":"2010-01-21T16:11:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T23:11:29","slug":"aitken%e2%80%99s-not-achin%e2%80%99-over-the-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Aitken\u2019s Not Achin\u2019 Over the Harm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Tom Aitken (NE MN) is all for change on gay sex. He <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/2006\/GrowingRift.htm\" target=\"_blank\">defends<\/a> the ELCA\u2019s August 2009 vote to approve partnered GLBT clergy. He says it\u2019s like \u201cwhen the early church believers met and voted to do something totally new and scary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aitken was referring to the decision to allow male Gentiles, or non-Jews, into the church without circumcision (Acts 15, Galatians 2).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a source of great consternation and contention,\u201d Aitken said. \u201cBut they decided to go against long-standing scriptural precedent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/2006\/Aitken\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Tom Aitken (NE MN) is all for change on gay sex. He defends the ELCA\u2019s August 2009 vote to approve partnered GLBT clergy. He says it\u2019s like \u201cwhen the early church believers met and voted to do something totally new and scary.\u201d Aitken was referring to the decision to allow male Gentiles, or non-Jews, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}