{"id":4083,"date":"2019-03-01T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T16:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=4083"},"modified":"2019-03-01T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T16:46:07","slug":"disappointing-result-at-united-methodist-general-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/4083","title":{"rendered":"Disappointing Result at United Methodist General Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the 2019 United\nMethodist General Conference held in St. Louis, delegates voted&nbsp;438 to 384\nto advance the Traditional Plan, rejecting plans that would ease the restrictions\non gay clergy and gay marriage. &nbsp;The rejected plans would have allowed&nbsp;individual&nbsp;congregations to\ndecided for themselves on LGBT issues.&nbsp;Some congregants feel this may\nsplit the UMC church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/religion\/2019\/2\/26\/united-methodist-church-rejects-bid-soften-lgbtq-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United Methodist Church Rejects Bid to Soften LGBTQ Ban<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hear JJ Warren&#8217;s impassioned speech at the conference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t7dMVbmHMpk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JJ Warren\nSpeech at General Conference 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JeffreyWarren-1024x734.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JeffreyWarren-1024x734.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JeffreyWarren-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JeffreyWarren-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JeffreyWarren.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 2019 United Methodist General Conference held in St. Louis, delegates voted&nbsp;438 to 384 to advance the Traditional Plan, rejecting plans that would ease the restrictions on gay clergy and gay marriage. &nbsp;The rejected plans would have allowed&nbsp;individual&nbsp;congregations to decided for themselves on LGBT issues.&nbsp;Some congregants feel this may split the UMC church. United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":4084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news","category-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083","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\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}