{"id":304,"date":"2004-11-08T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2004-11-08T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-08T15:36:00","slug":"one-druid-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"One Druid Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fr. William Melnyk, the Episcopal priest in Pennsylvania who was also an active Druid, has resigned.<\/a>. His wife, Glyn Ruppe-Melnyk, also a Druid and Episcopal priest (no “-ess” allowed), faces disciplinary action.<\/p>\n

My last post on this issue is here<\/a>. Notice that the man must suffer more; women lead us into temptation, but a man is more morally culpable. Thus says the patriarchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fr. William Melnyk, the Episcopal priest in Pennsylvania who was also an active Druid, has resigned.. His wife, Glyn Ruppe-Melnyk, also a Druid and Episcopal priest (no “-ess” allowed), faces disciplinary action. My last post on this issue is here. Notice that the man must suffer more; women lead us into temptation, but a man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24,14,5],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-christianity","tag-druidry","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-4U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":411,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=411","url_meta":{"origin":304,"position":0},"title":"Episcopalians and Druids, cont.The saga\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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