{"id":190654,"date":"2012-05-23T02:43:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T07:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=190654"},"modified":"2012-05-24T02:44:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T07:44:19","slug":"longview-church-leaving-national-demomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=190654","title":{"rendered":"Longview Church Leaving National Demomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=190655\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-190655\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/05\/First-Presbyterian-Church-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"First Presbyterian Church\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-190655\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2013 Members of a Longview church have voted to leave their national denomination over its decision to allow ordination of non-celibate homosexuals. The action was taken Sunday by members of First Presbyterian Church. Their action will create a new church that will be called Evangelical Presbyterian Church Longview.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Longview News-Journal, over 370 members of First Presbyterian turned out for a congregational meeting Sunday evening. The vote was 282 in favor of leaving the Presbyterian Church of the USA and joining Evangelical Presbyterian Church; 84 in favor of remaining with the denomination, and six voting to stay with the property regardless of denomination affiliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2013 Members of a Longview church have voted to leave their national denomination over its decision to allow ordination of non-celibate homosexuals. The action was taken Sunday by members of First Presbyterian Church. Their action will create a new church that will be called Evangelical Presbyterian Church Longview. According to the Longview News-Journal, over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=190654\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Church Leaving National Demomination<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 09:29:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190654"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190958,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190654\/revisions\/190958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}