{"id":7834,"date":"2019-09-30T04:48:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-gospel-is-hateful-rhetoric\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:48:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:02","slug":"the-gospel-is-hateful-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-gospel-is-hateful-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel Is Hateful Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian beliefs about sin and especially homosexuality have been declared by a California court \u201cpublic safety issues\u201d that the government has a \u201cduty to condemn.\u201d  As such the court ruled that condemning sin was \u201chateful rhetoric\u201d and the government must \u201cexercise its duty as a public body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What was this hateful and unacceptable rhetoric?  It was an ad campaign that said, \u201cformer homosexuals can celebrate a new life because someone cared enough to share with them the truth of God&#8217;s healing love &#8230; the truth that God abhors any form of sexual sin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Source: American Family Association Journal, Sept 2000.  Submitted by Rev. Craig Watters, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Louisville, Colorado<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian beliefs about sin and especially homosexuality have been declared by a California court \u201cpublic safety issues\u201d that the government has a \u201cduty to condemn.\u201d As such the court ruled that condemning sin was \u201chateful rhetoric\u201d and the government must \u201cexercise its duty as a public body.\u201d What was this hateful and unacceptable rhetoric? It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[611,608,609,612,594,84,610],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}