{"id":473,"date":"2006-12-12T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T21:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/473"},"modified":"2006-12-12T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T21:35:05","slug":"and-isaac-saw-the-knife-in-his-fathers-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/473","title":{"rendered":"And Isaac Saw The Knife In His Father’s Hand…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emil Steiner at the Washington Post asks<\/a>, "What’s going on in Colorado’s Evangelical community?"  Well…here’s what’s going on<\/a>, and not just in Colorado…<\/p>\n

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Sitting cross-legged in jeans and an open-collar shirt, Barnes spoke in his video about evolving feelings growing up in a firm moral family: from confused little boy to adolescent racked with self-loathing and guilt.<\/p>\n

In their only talk about sex, Barnes said his father took him on a drive and talked about what he would do if a "fag" approached him.<\/p>\n

Barnes thought, "’Is that how you’d feel about me?’ It was like a knife in my heart, and it made me feel even more closed."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have a strong hunch that dad was having some thoughts about how manly his boy was, and decided to lay it on the line for him.  It did it’s work.  When Abraham took his son to the sacrificial altar<\/a>, so the story goes, an angel stayed his hand just at the moment he was about to put the knife into his son.  But I don’t think even an angel could stop some parents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emil Steiner at the Washington Post asks, "What’s going on in Colorado’s Evangelical community?"  Well…here’s what’s going on, and not just in Colorado… Sitting cross-legged in jeans and an open-collar shirt, Barnes spoke in his video about evolving feelings growing up in a firm moral family: from confused little boy to adolescent racked with self-loathing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,28,12],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-religion","tag-sexual-orientation","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","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=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}