{"id":1556,"date":"2003-08-04T05:27:01","date_gmt":"2003-08-04T19:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/04\/two-down-one-to-go\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:39:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:39:55","slug":"two-down-one-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/04\/two-down-one-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Two down, one to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13892,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/wp-dyn\\\/articles\\\/A18152-2003Aug4.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10646,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.justlikeadream.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311071234\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.justlikeadream.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 19:59:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 07:15:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 14:48:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 15:47:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 15:47:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The Episcopal Church continues to make progress in becoming more inclusive, as openly gay Bishop-elect Rev.\u00a0V. Gene Robinson has successfully passed two of the three votes before being elected, and a possible compromise has been reached for a ceremony celebrating same-sex unions. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A18152-2003Aug4.html\" title=\"U.S. Episcopal Leaders to Vote On Gay Bishop\">This is wonderful news<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;God is not on a learning curve,&#8221; Robinson said. &#8220;We, on the other hand, are on the learning curve. God has taught us a lot of things about the full inclusion of people of color, of women, and now of gay and lesbian folk.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justlikeadream.com\/\" title=\"Just Like a Dream\">D<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God is not on a learning curve. We, on the other hand, are on the learning curve. God has taught us a lot of things about the full inclusion of people of color, of women, and now of gay and lesbian folk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}