{"id":295,"date":"2010-10-15T16:38:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T23:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2010-10-15T16:38:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T23:38:28","slug":"sexuality-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/15\/sexuality-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexuality Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed Donald Miller&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0785213066?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=accretiondisc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0785213066\">A Million Miles in a Thousand Years<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=accretiondisc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0785213066\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>. In fact, I liked it so much, I subscribed to his blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/donmilleris.com\/\">donaldmilleris.com<\/a>. That&#8217;s where I just noticed this article. It&#8217;s a bit dated, and it&#8217;s about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eddie_Long\">Eddie Long<\/a>, who I&#8217;d never heard of until a month ago. But I&#8217;m posting it because I think it ties in with our denomination&#8217;s never-ending battle about human sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to <a href=\"http:\/\/donmilleris.com\/2010\/09\/28\/dont-ask-dont-tell-and-the-church\/\">read the whole thing<\/a>. Here&#8217;s something to get you started:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In my opinion, the reason Christians become marginalized for being open about their homosexuality is because of people like, well, Ted Haggard and Eddie Long. And not because both men have been accused of being gay. It\u2019s because both men actually created the attitude that judges them in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed Donald Miller&#8217;s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. In fact, I liked it so much, I subscribed to his blog at donaldmilleris.com. That&#8217;s where I just noticed this article. It&#8217;s a bit dated, and it&#8217;s about Eddie Long, who I&#8217;d never heard of until a month ago. But I&#8217;m posting it &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/15\/sexuality-debate\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124,130,163,53,285],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-miller","tag-eddie-long","tag-homosexuality","tag-sexuality","tag-ted-haggard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}