{"id":24668,"date":"2026-04-01T11:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=24668"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:31:22","slug":"judge-rejects-umcs-claim-to-own-breakaway-megachurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=24668","title":{"rendered":"Judge rejects UMC\u2019s claim to own breakaway megachurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>An Alabama judge has ruled that the United Methodist Church does not own and has no legal claim to the property of Harvest Church, a megachurch in Dothan that broke away from the denomination over its stance on same-sex marriage. #Alabama #UnitedMethodistChurch #HarvestChurch #Megachurch #SameSexMarriage #GlobalMethodistChurch #Lawsuit #BreakawayChurches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Alabama judge has ruled that the United Methodist Church does not own and has no legal claim to the property of Harvest Church, a megachurch in Dothan that broke away from the denomination over its stance on same-sex marriage. #Alabama #UnitedMethodistChurch #HarvestChurch #Megachurch #SameSexMarriage #GlobalMethodistChurch #Lawsuit #BreakawayChurches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8212,2812,1353,6227,1600,8211],"class_list":["post-24668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-christian-living","tag-breakaway","tag-claim","tag-judge","tag-megachurch","tag-rejects","tag-umcs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}