{"id":3182,"date":"2008-06-10T20:25:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T04:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2008-06-11T07:53:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T15:53:41","slug":"what-kind-of-moral-qualifications-do-you-need-to-lead-the-prayers-at-an-orthodox-shul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3182","title":{"rendered":"What Kind Of Moral Qualifications Do You Need To Lead Prayers At An Orthodox Shul?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it ok to have someone lead davening who desecrates the Sabbath? What about someone out of the closet and leading a gay life? Does the davener just need to have long pants (in America) and know the prayers? What if you are convicted felon? What if you&#8217;ve been charged with Spinka-like money laundering?<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p>If you are openly gay (and not leading a celibate life), how does that affect your conversion to Orthodox Judaism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it ok to have someone lead davening who desecrates the Sabbath? What about someone out of the closet and leading a gay life? Does the davener just need to have long pants (in America) and know the prayers? What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4422,7185,9404,9405,2618],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodoxy","tag-davening","tag-felon","tag-gay-life","tag-long-pants","tag-orthodox-shul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}