{"id":550,"date":"2011-08-02T19:52:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T00:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=550"},"modified":"2018-06-09T21:58:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T02:58:46","slug":"welcoming-congregation-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2011\/08\/02\/welcoming-congregation-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming Congregation Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Welcoming Congregation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uua.org\/lgbt\/welcoming\/program\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-551\" title=\"WelcomingCongregation\" src=\"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/WelcomingCongregation.gif\" alt=\"Welcoming Congregation\" width=\"150\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uua.org\/lgbt\/welcoming\/program\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">The Welcoming Congregation Program<\/a> is a completely volunteer program for Unitarian Universalist congregations that see a need to become more inclusive towards bisexual, gay, lesbian, and\/or transgender people.<\/p>\n<p>The program consists of a series of workshops developed by the Unitarian Universalist Association. The goal of the workshops is to reduce prejudice by increasing understanding and acceptance among people of different sexual orientations.<\/p>\n<p>On 22 May 2011 &#8212; after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uua.org\/lgbt\/welcoming\/program\/23357.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">completing the required actions to become a Welcoming Congregation<\/a> &#8212; we affirmed our desire to be a Welcoming Congregation through an overwhelming congregational vote.<\/p>\n<p>Our report describing our Welcoming Congregation efforts and results can be found in an Adobe Acrobat PDF document <a href=\"http:\/\/allsoulsuushreveport.org\/welcomingcongregation\/AllSoulsWelcomingCongregationReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Welcoming Congregation Program is a completely volunteer program for Unitarian Universalist congregations that see a need to become more inclusive towards bisexual, gay, lesbian, and\/or transgender people. The program consists of a series of workshops developed by the Unitarian Universalist Association. The goal of the workshops is to reduce prejudice by increasing understanding and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2011\/08\/02\/welcoming-congregation-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcoming Congregation Report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-leadership","category-social-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}