{"id":1099,"date":"2011-09-26T00:48:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T04:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2011-09-26T00:48:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T04:48:31","slug":"gay-clergy-ground-zero-mosque-other-controversial-faith-stories-move-ahead-quietly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/09\/gay-clergy-ground-zero-mosque-other-controversial-faith-stories-move-ahead-quietly.html","title":{"rendered":"Gay Clergy, Ground Zero Mosque &amp; Other Controversial Faith Stories Move Ahead Quietly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Interesting mix of faith news over the weekend, kind of falling into an &#8220;end of an era&#8221; theme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check these out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jZtHD2HEzL1tgWJVNyQQEWy0KTAQ?docId=2dfa98ae56d448b7bef4dc1f9ee42371\" target=\"_blank\">Islamic center opens its doors near ground zero<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/09\/24\/church-leadership-post-for-an-openly-gay-mormon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Church leadership post for an openly gay Mormon<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/blogs\/130439563.html\" target=\"_blank\">First gay man to be ordained in Presbyterian Church USA since historic\u00a0vote <\/a>(Minneapolis Star Tribune)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/Religion\/post\/2011\/09\/catholic-communion-wine-eucharist-mass\/1?csp=34news&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Religion-TopStories+%28News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">Bishop: Bread alone will do for Communion for most Masses <\/a>(USA Today&#8217;s Faith &amp; Reason blog)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/atlanta\/angel-food-shuts-down-1185867.html\" target=\"_blank\">Angel Food shuts down<\/a> (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;End times,&#8221; or what? Maybe it&#8217;s just the season&#8230; on a related note, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.orlandosentinel.com\/features-the-religion-world\/2011\/09\/22\/rosh-hashanah-happy-new-year-its-not\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, is this week<\/a>, so stay tuned for a Belief Beat post on that.<\/p>\n<p>Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to\u00a0<\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting mix of faith news over the weekend, kind of falling into an &#8220;end of an era&#8221; theme.\u00a0 Check these out: &#8211;Islamic center opens its doors near ground zero (AP) &#8211;Church leadership post for an openly gay Mormon (CNN) &#8211;First gay man to be ordained in Presbyterian Church USA since historic\u00a0vote (Minneapolis Star Tribune) &#8211;Bishop:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[470,100,20,14,170,471,11,8,229,226,7,472,451],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-angel-food-ministries","tag-catholicism","tag-catholics","tag-christianity","tag-gay-clergy","tag-ground-zero-mosque","tag-islam","tag-islamophobia","tag-lds","tag-mormons","tag-muslims","tag-park51","tag-sept-11-attacks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gay Clergy, Ground Zero Mosque &amp; 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