{"id":851,"date":"2005-11-24T01:12:17","date_gmt":"2005-11-24T09:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=851"},"modified":"2005-11-24T01:12:17","modified_gmt":"2005-11-24T09:12:17","slug":"priests-citing-new-problem-in-gay-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/24\/priests-citing-new-problem-in-gay-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Priests Citing New Problem in Gay Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/24\/politics\/24priest.html?ei=5088&#038;en=a3c91acb26463a0a&#038;ex=1290488400&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;adxnnlx=1132822971-TfLar4MK+jjoRMfYVrd8mQ\">NYT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Unless you get a critical mass of bishops and religious superiors who say, Now we can&#8217;t admit any gay men, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to have any discernible effect,&#8221; Father Bretzke said. &#8220;There are lots of excellent gay priests and seminarians, and we have a priest shortage. We&#8217;re not exactly in a buyer&#8217;s market here. If you&#8217;re not going to ordain gay men, and not going to ordain married men, and not going to ordain women, well then who&#8217;s left? It&#8217;s not exactly a big pool.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: &#8220;Unless you get a critical mass of bishops and religious superiors who say, Now we can&#8217;t admit any gay men, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to have any discernible effect,&#8221; Father Bretzke said. &#8220;There are lots of excellent gay priests and seminarians, and we have a priest shortage. We&#8217;re not exactly in a buyer&#8217;s market here. If you&#8217;re not going to ordain gay men, and not going to ordain married men, and not going to ordain women, well then&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-general","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-dJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}