{"id":1070,"date":"2007-06-29T09:53:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T09:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2007-06-29T09:53:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T09:53:18","slug":"observing_the_changes_in_verba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"Observing the changes in verbiage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 20-30 years, the arguments and verbiage used by the anti-homosexual and ex-gay groups have changed dramatically.  As I&#8217;ve said before, these groups and ministries keep having to change their arguments and explanations because they all are proven untenable after a while.<br \/>\nIt used to be that these groups would present to the world the opportunity for homosexuals to be &#8220;healed from homosexuality.&#8221;  Then, it was something like to &#8220;be free of homosexual desire.&#8221;  Now, after reading a bit from a recent Focus-on-the-Family <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizenlink.org\/CLNews\/A000004942.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Citizenlink e-mail update<\/a>, it is &#8220;ministry to help people who desire to leave homosexual behavior.&#8221;<br \/>\nNow, the verbiage has changed to focus on those who want to leave a behavior, not healing of or change in orientation.  I still say that the Roman Catholic group Courage has been the most honest and forthright of all the ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 20-30 years, the arguments and verbiage used by the anti-homosexual and ex-gay groups have changed dramatically. As I&#8217;ve said before, these groups and ministries keep having to change their arguments and explanations because they all are proven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1070\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gayex-gay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}