{"id":5738,"date":"2012-05-14T12:39:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T17:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=5738"},"modified":"2012-05-14T12:39:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T17:39:34","slug":"because-persecuting-homosexuals-is-the-only-reason-i-have-for-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/5738","title":{"rendered":"Because Persecuting Homosexuals Is The Only Reason I Have For Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/garlow-opposing-gay-marriage-may-cost-us-our-lives\">Right Wing Watch<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jim Garlow was on Daystar TV&#8217;s &#8220;Celebration&#8221; program to promote his recent book &#8220;Miracles Are For Real,&#8221;  but before the discussion about his book began, Garlow and hosts Marcus  and Joni Lamb spent several minutes talking about President \u00a0Obama&#8217;s  statement last week in support of marriage equality.<\/p>\n<p>Garlow weighed in, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/LYt4emUdzZs\">declaring<\/a> that religious liberty and &#8220;the radical homosexual agenda&#8221; were on  course for a head-on collision in America because &#8220;they cannot both  exist in the same nation at the same time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because persecuting homosexuals is a sacrament more vital to one&#8217;s own salvation then being baptized. \u00a0 If homosexuals can live their lives in peace we might as well close the church doors and wait for the rapture because salvation just isn&#8217;t possible anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but he&#8217;s not through yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Garlow warned that advances in marriage equality will eventually force  the Christian church underground because the gay agenda is all about  &#8220;coercion, and crushing, and taking away our liberties and  freedoms.&#8221; \u00a0But nonetheless, Garlow said, Christians must be willing to  stand up and speak out in opposition even though &#8220;we are coming into an  era where it could cost us everything, including our lives&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whereas homosexuals don&#8217;t have lives. \u00a0 And if they do our relentless incitement of religious passions toward them certainly isn&#8217;t costing any of them theirs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/barie-shortell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5742 aligncenter\" title=\"barie-shortell\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/barie-shortell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/barie-shortell.jpg 446w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/barie-shortell-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Right Wing Watch&#8230; Jim Garlow was on Daystar TV&#8217;s &#8220;Celebration&#8221; program to promote his recent book &#8220;Miracles Are For Real,&#8221; but before the discussion about his book began, Garlow and hosts Marcus and Joni Lamb spent several minutes talking about President \u00a0Obama&#8217;s statement last week in support of marriage equality. Garlow weighed in, declaring [&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":[24,18,90,46],"class_list":["post-5738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-gods-and-monsters","tag-gratuitous-anti-gay-hate","tag-the-human-gutter","tag-the-kultar-kampf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738","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=5738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}