{"id":14087,"date":"2009-07-24T15:15:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T15:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cal_thomas_the_church_of_whats_happenin_now\/"},"modified":"2009-07-24T15:15:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T15:15:12","slug":"cal_thomas_the_church_of_whats_happenin_now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14087","title":{"rendered":"Cal Thomas: the Church of What&#39;s Happenin&#39; Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In the early &#8217;70s, comedian Flip Wilson created a character for his NBC television program called &#8220;Reverend Leroy&#8221; of &#8220;The Church of What&#8217;s Happenin&#8217; Now.&#8221; Like some contemporary &#8220;reverends,&#8221; Reverend Leroy was a con artist who, among other things, once took up an offering to go to Las Vegas, explaining he had to study sin in order to effectively preach against it.<\/p>\n<p>Reverend Leroy would feel right at home in the modern Episcopal Church, which recently voted at its denominational meeting in Anaheim, Calif., to end the ban on the ordination of gay bishops and permit marriage &#8220;blessings&#8221; for same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jewishworldreview.com\/cols\/thomas072309.php3\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early &#8217;70s, comedian Flip Wilson created a character for his NBC television program called &#8220;Reverend Leroy&#8221; of &#8220;The Church of What&#8217;s Happenin&#8217; Now.&#8221; Like some contemporary &#8220;reverends,&#8221; Reverend Leroy was a con artist who, among other things, once<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14087\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,66,378,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}