{"id":4937,"date":"2011-04-12T09:32:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T14:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2011-04-12T09:32:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T14:32:46","slug":"getting-in-touch-with-your-inner-jackass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/4937","title":{"rendered":"Getting In Touch With Your Inner Jackass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>Posted over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthwinsout.org\/category\/blog\/\">Truth Wins Out<\/a>&#8230;<\/em>]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Why stop at transgender identity? Why not species identity \u2014 someone wants to get in touch with their inner horse.&rdquo;<\/em><br \/>\n-Matt Barber, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanindependent.com\/178239\/christian-conservatives-discuss-strategy-for-fighting-war-against-gays-start-with-semantics\">speaking at <em>The Awakening<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lest you think it was all bile and venom at The Awakening, they also discussed ways of approaching homosexuals from a Christian perspective.  &ldquo;We have to reach out to those trapped in lifestyle that ultimately leads to death,&rdquo; said Cynthia Dunbar, assistant law professor at Liberty University.  Ryan Sorba, chairman of the Young Conservatives of California who threw a fit at gay participation at last year&#8217;s CPAC, offered these helpful insights for Christians wishing to reach out to homosexuals:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&ldquo;\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGay&#8217; is a left-wing socio-political construct designed to create grounds for fundamental rights [based on] whimsical capricious desires. Gay identity does not exist.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article he then proposed several alternatives to &#8220;gay&#8221; including, &#8220;same-sex attraction&#8221;, &#8220;same-sex intercourse&#8221;, &#8220;unnatural vice&#8221; and the ever popular &#8220;sodomy&#8221;.  Later it was proposed that gays also be called &#8220;anti-Christian.&#8221;  But in a reaching out kind of way.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever they were awakening there at Liberty University it wasn&#8217;t their conscience.  Perhaps they should have held a seance instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Posted over at Truth Wins Out&#8230;] &#8220;Why stop at transgender identity? Why not species identity \u2014 someone wants to get in touch with their inner horse.&rdquo; -Matt Barber, speaking at The Awakening Lest you think it was all bile and venom at The Awakening, they also discussed ways of approaching homosexuals from a Christian perspective. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,18,32,21,20],"class_list":["post-4937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-gods-and-monsters","tag-gratuitous-anti-gay-hate","tag-hate","tag-the-abyss","tag-the-american-gutter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937","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=4937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}