{"id":21566,"date":"2022-11-17T13:36:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T21:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=21566"},"modified":"2022-11-18T18:55:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T02:55:25","slug":"united-methodist-church-body-elects-openly-gay-bishop-in-violation-of-its-rules-inmates-running-the-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/united-methodist-church-body-elects-openly-gay-bishop-in-violation-of-its-rules-inmates-running-the-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"United Methodist Church body elects openly gay bishop in violation of its rules: &#8216;Inmates running the asylum&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<p>The UMC Book of Discipline forbids ordaining &#8216;self-avowed practicing homosexuals&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A regional body of the United Methodist Church (UMC) voted to elect the denomination&#8217;s first openly gay Black bishop last week in violation of its rules prohibiting the ordination of &#8220;self-avowed practicing homosexuals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The UMC Western Jurisdiction, which encompasses the western U.S. and Alaska, voted to promote Rev. Cedrick D. Bridgeforth of the California-Pacific Conference to the rank of bishop on Nov. 4 after Bridgeforth secured 73 votes out of the 93 cast. He needed 63 votes to win.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgeforth, who is married to another man, said in remarks following his election that he was &#8220;grateful to God Almighty&#8221; and &#8220;to my husband, Christopher.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s in the church where I have found purpose, even when I felt like it was chewing me up and spitting me out, I still couldn\u2019t let it go,&#8221; the new bishop said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/united-methodist-church-body-elects-openly-gay-bishop-in-violation-its-rules-inmates-running-the-asylum\">www.foxnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UMC Book of Discipline forbids ordaining &#8216;self-avowed practicing homosexuals&#8217; A regional body of the United Methodist Church (UMC) voted to elect the denomination&#8217;s first openly gay Black bishop last week in violation of its rules prohibiting the ordination of &#8220;self-avowed practicing homosexuals.&#8221; The UMC Western Jurisdiction, which encompasses the western U.S. and Alaska, voted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/united-methodist-church-body-elects-openly-gay-bishop-in-violation-of-its-rules-inmates-running-the-asylum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">United Methodist Church body elects openly gay bishop in violation of its rules: &#8216;Inmates running the asylum&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-white-horse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/white_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5BQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21577,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21566\/revisions\/21577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}