{"id":1804,"date":"2015-04-12T15:39:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T20:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2015-04-12T15:39:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T20:39:28","slug":"vatican-rejects-french-diplomat-over-sexual-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1804","title":{"rendered":"Vatican &#8216;rejects&#8217; French diplomat over sexual orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vatican City has stalled on accepting the newest ambassador from France because he is an out gay man. Laurent Stefanini, a close advisor to French President Hollande and a chief of protocol for the French diplomatic corps, was named to the post in early January. However, Stefanini&#8217;s appointment has not been officially accepted, signalling to many that the Holy See has problems with his nomination.?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/pope-rejects-frances-vatican-ambassador-because-he-gay100415\">Via Gay Star News:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As envoys are normally accepted within six weeks, and as the Vatican does not explicitly refuse credentials, a prolonged silence is being taken as a rejection.<\/p>\n<p>French media have widely reported that the rejection happened because of Stefanini&#8217;s sexuality, with Le Journal du Dimanche quoting a Vatican inside saying it was &#8216;a decision taken by the pope himself&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Vatican City has stalled on accepting the newest ambassador from France because he is an out gay man. Laurent Stefanini, a close advisor to French President Hollande and a chief of protocol for the French diplomatic corps, was named to the post in early January. However, Stefanini&#8217;s appointment has not been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}