{"id":50553,"date":"2015-06-29T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_conservative_churches_confront_new_reality_on_same-sex_marriage\/"},"modified":"2015-06-29T18:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T18:00:43","slug":"ap_conservative_churches_confront_new_reality_on_same-sex_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50553","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Conservative churches confront new reality on same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At First Baptist Dallas, where the pulpit was adorned Sunday with red, white and blue bunting to honor the Fourth of July, the pastor called the Supreme Court\u2019s gay marriage ruling \u201can affront in the face of Almighty God.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The iconic rainbow colors that bathed the White House Friday night after the court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide represent \u201cdepravity, degradation and what the Bible calls sexual perversion,\u201d\u009d the Rev. Robert Jeffress said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we are not discouraged,\u201d\u009d Jeffress said. \u201cWe are not going to be silenced. This is a great opportunity for our church to share the truth and love of Jesus Christ and we are going to do it.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article25731322.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At First Baptist Dallas, where the pulpit was adorned Sunday with red, white and blue bunting to honor the Fourth of July, the pastor called the Supreme Court\u2019s gay marriage ruling \u201can affront in the face of Almighty God.\u201d\u009d The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50553\">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":[39,42,576,175,168,419,114,98,154,177,108,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50553","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=50553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}