{"id":40026,"date":"2013-09-12T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/utah_episcopal_bishop_scott_hayashi_takes_a_stand_against_anti-mormon_humor\/"},"modified":"2013-09-12T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T17:00:24","slug":"utah_episcopal_bishop_scott_hayashi_takes_a_stand_against_anti-mormon_humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40026","title":{"rendered":"Utah Episcopal Bishop Scott Hayashi takes a stand against anti-Mormon humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rt. Rev. Scott B. Hayashi, Episcopal Bishop of Utah, is a smiler.<\/p>\n<p>He loves to laugh, and those who know him best say he can tell a joke with the best of them.<\/p>\n<p>But there is one form of humor that always puts a frown on his face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like jokes that are hateful toward any one group, especially jokes that are hateful toward a religious group,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cIn my baptismal covenant I pledged that I would \u201d\u02dcwork for justice and peace and respect the dignity of every human being.\u2019 Statements of hate, regardless of who they are generated against or how humorously they are intended, are not part of what it means to me to be faithful as an Episcopalian. So I say, don\u2019t do it.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865586217\/Episcopal-bishop-takes-a-stand-against-anti-Mormon-humor.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rt. Rev. Scott B. Hayashi, Episcopal Bishop of Utah, is a smiler. He loves to laugh, and those who know him best say he can tell a joke with the best of them. But there is one form of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40026\">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":[36,39,50,42,209,162,66,168,161,428,123,155,177,108,372,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-christology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-mormons","category-multiculturalism-pluralism","category-other-faiths","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-tec-bishops","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40026","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=40026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}