{"id":4108,"date":"2009-09-09T13:39:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T18:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2009-09-09T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T20:46:01","slug":"and-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/4108","title":{"rendered":"And Another&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Towleroad&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2009\/09\/florida-megachurch-dumps-pepsi-over-its-positions-on-gay-issues.html\">Florida Megachurch Dumps Pepsi Over its Positions on Gay Issues<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The Bell Shoals Baptist megachurch in Brandon, Florida is making headlines for carting 10 Pepsi machines out of its premises and replacing them with machines from Coca-Cola, because, they say, Pepsi donated to Prop 8, sponsors Gay Pride parades, and runs ads that cater to homosexuals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Your church had ten soft drink vending machines in it?&nbsp; Wow.&nbsp; What else you got in there&#8230; A Chick Fil A?&nbsp; A swimming pool?&nbsp; Oh&#8230;I see you have an online <em>Store!<\/em>&nbsp; Very nice&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/images\/bell_shoals_baptist_congregants.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Oh look at all the microphone stands that came to church on Sunday. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>Church is such a&#8230;different experience from when I was a little Baptist boy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"215\" alt=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef0120a55c29f3970b-800wi\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Very different.&nbsp; So&#8230;is that really a church or is it a sports arena?&nbsp; Do you have hockey games Sunday nights?&nbsp; Is Coca-Cola served?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>[Update&#8230;]<\/em>&nbsp; Dan Savage <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2009\/09\/09\/no-pepsi-coke\">shares my astonishment<\/a>  at the lovely modern amenities now available to customers of today&#8217;s modern luxury MegaChurches&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Towleroad&#8230; Florida Megachurch Dumps Pepsi Over its Positions on Gay Issues The Bell Shoals Baptist megachurch in Brandon, Florida is making headlines for carting 10 Pepsi machines out of its premises and replacing them with machines from Coca-Cola, because, they say, Pepsi donated to Prop 8, sponsors Gay Pride parades, and runs ads that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[27,111],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-koyaanisqatsi","tag-mcfaith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}