{"id":5617,"date":"2012-05-02T07:37:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T12:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2012-05-02T07:40:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T12:40:39","slug":"oh-is-this-mike-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/5617","title":{"rendered":"Oh&#8230;Is This Mike On&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/ncs-pastor-sean-harris-i-was-only.html\">Joe. My. God<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sean Harris, pastor of Berean Baptist  Church on Glensford Drive, said he does not advocate hitting children  and wishes he could take back a remark encouraging fathers to punch boys  who act effeminately&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and let&#8217;s just forget completely about that part about cracking their wrists&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;But he defended his belief in the need to  reinforce traditional gender roles in children. &#8220;If I had to say it  again, I would say it differently, no doubt,&#8221; Harris said Tuesday.  &#8220;Those weren&#8217;t planned words, but what I do stand by is that the word of  God makes it clear that effeminate behavior is ungodly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Preaching at parents that they need to break the bones of their gay kids however being the epitome of godliness. \u00a0 So long as you say it differently. \u00a0 <em>As the twig is bent so grows the tree&#8230;so parents I give you special dispensation to crack those dear little twigs back into Straightness<\/em><em> <\/em><em>when you see them going limp&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Coming Soon To A fundamentalist Church Near You<\/em><em>!<\/em><\/strong> Pat downs for recording devices, and petitions to make taping anti-gay child abusive rants in church a class one felony punishable by stoning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Joe. My. God&#8230; Sean Harris, pastor of Berean Baptist Church on Glensford Drive, said he does not advocate hitting children and wishes he could take back a remark encouraging fathers to punch boys who act effeminately&#8230; &#8230;and let&#8217;s just forget completely about that part about cracking their wrists&#8230; &#8230;But he defended his belief in [&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":[24,32,90,19],"class_list":["post-5617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-gods-and-monsters","tag-hate","tag-the-human-gutter","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617","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=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}