{"id":19208,"date":"2015-04-01T23:08:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T05:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=19208"},"modified":"2015-04-01T23:49:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T05:49:35","slug":"breaking-lds-church-to-create-wards-for-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/04\/breaking-lds-church-to-create-wards-for-liberals.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;BREAKING: LDS Church to Create Wards for Liberals&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19209\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/04\/800px-NDChurch.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19209\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/04\/800px-NDChurch-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"An LDS chapel in North Dakota\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fairly typical LDS meetinghouse<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is <em>very<\/em> dramatic news:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/utahpoliticohub.com\/breaking-lds-church-create-wards-liberals\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/utahpoliticohub.com\/breaking-lds-church-create-wards-liberals\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d put it on the same level as the 1978 revelation on priesthood, the announcement of the rebuilding of the Nauvoo Temple, the unveiling of the Perpetual Education Fund, and similar events.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Kevin Taylor for alerting me to this important story.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 This is very dramatic news: \u00a0 http:\/\/utahpoliticohub.com\/breaking-lds-church-create-wards-liberals\/ \u00a0 I\u2019d put it on the same level as the 1978 revelation on priesthood, the announcement of the rebuilding of the Nauvoo Temple, the unveiling of the Perpetual Education Fund, and similar events. \u00a0 Thanks to Kevin Taylor for alerting me to this important story. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;BREAKING: LDS Church to Create Wards for Liberals&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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