{"id":393,"date":"2004-09-22T06:39:56","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T06:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=393"},"modified":"2004-09-22T06:39:56","modified_gmt":"2004-09-22T06:39:56","slug":"the_heart_is_a_little_to_the_l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"The Heart is a Little to the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I want to confront homophobia for two reasons.  The first is that the &#8216;gay agenda&#8217; has replaced the &#8216;communist threat&#8217; s the battering ram of reactionary politics.  Instead of the commie behind every bush, there&#8217;s a gay person sick and sinful.<br \/>\n&#8220;The second reason is that while the church has generally given at least some support to the oppressed, in the case of homosexuals the church has led in the opposition.<br \/>\n&#8220;The better to refute the assertions of contrary-minded Christians, I want to speak as a Christian preacher who shares Bishop Tutu&#8217;s sorrowful conclusion: &#8216;The Lord of the Church would not be where his church is in this matter.'&#8221;<br \/>\nWilliam Sloane Coffin, <em>The Heart Is A Little To The Left<\/em>, p 27.<br \/>\n(Among other things, the retired pastor of Riverside Church, New York City)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I want to confront homophobia for two reasons. The first is that the &#8216;gay agenda&#8217; has replaced the &#8216;communist threat&#8217; s the battering ram of reactionary politics. Instead of the commie behind every bush, there&#8217;s a gay person sick and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=393\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","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=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}