{"id":1243,"date":"2014-05-27T10:50:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T16:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=19390"},"modified":"2014-05-27T10:50:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T16:50:26","slug":"morning-buzz-united-methodist-church-faces-irreconcilable-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2014\/05\/morning-buzz-united-methodist-church-faces-irreconcilable-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Buzz | United Methodist Church Faces \u201cIrreconcilable Differences\u201d"},"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>Today\u2019s Buzz covers the divide in the United Methodist Church over same-sex marriage, predictions for the 2014 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