{"id":4096,"date":"2019-03-07T08:25:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T13:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2019-03-05T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:27:06","slug":"lgbtqia-world-news-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/4096","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA+ US News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/26\/us\/united-methodists-vote.html\">United\nMethodists Tighten Ban on Same-Sex Marriage and Gay Clergy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United Methodist Church faces a possible split over the\nrecent vote banning gay and lesbian clergy and same-sex marriages. The\norganization met in St. Louis last week and the results of the vote by church\nofficials were sharply divided 57 to 43 percent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2019\/02\/08\/lgbt-law-enforcement-officers-sue-over-workplace-discrimination\/2404755002\/\">LGBT\npolice officers say they&#8217;ve faced horrible discrimination, and now they&#8217;re\nsuing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police offers on the California Highway Patrol who identify\nas LGBT are suing because of a dangerous workplace environment. The officers\nclaim say have experienced extremely homophobic treatment to the extent that\nthey are endangered when on the job.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/02\/24\/696572968\/arizona-law-leaves-schools-struggling-to-navigate-lgbtq-issues\">Arizona\nLaw Leaves Schools Struggling To Navigate LGBTQ Issues<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arizona is one of seven states that currently have laws\nbanning certain curriculum containing LGBTQ issues, however Arizona is the only\nstate that forbids the promotion of a homosexual lifestyle. The law\nspecifically addresses HIV\/AIDs education and forbids teachers from positively\npromoting a gay lifestyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Methodists Tighten Ban on Same-Sex Marriage and Gay Clergy The United Methodist Church faces a possible split over the recent vote banning gay and lesbian clergy and same-sex marriages. The organization met in St. Louis last week and the results of the vote by church officials were sharply divided 57 to 43 percent.&nbsp; LGBT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":4097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,57,769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news","category-media-of-note","category-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","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\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}