{"id":881,"date":"2007-08-15T07:26:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T12:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/881"},"modified":"2007-08-15T07:34:22","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T12:34:22","slug":"why-i-am-sick-of-fundamentalist-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/881","title":{"rendered":"Why I Am Sick Of Fundamentalist &#8220;Love&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lifted from Peterson&#8217;s comment to his own blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/a_musing.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/geh-wie-ein-cowboy.html\">Here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Peterson now wants to help others that are referred to the clutches of Exodus. He invited all ex-gay survivors, as they call themselves, to a conference in opposition to the ex-gay movement. They can learn how one can be gay and nevertheless lead a godly life. Michael Bussee co-founded Exodus 30 years ago but came back out of it because he found the methods of the organization questionable. Today he participates in the &lsquo;counter&rsquo;-conference: <strong>&ldquo;One day a young man came to me. He explained that he&rsquo;d had anonymous sex and felt so guilty afterward that he mutilated himself<\/strong>. At that point I came to the conclusion that I couldn&rsquo;t preach against homosexuality anymore if it causes such damage.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Emphasis mine. &nbsp; You folks who say &quot;love the sinner, hate the sin&quot;&#8230;?&nbsp; There&#8217;s your love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifted from Peterson&#8217;s comment to his own blog post Here&#8230; Peterson now wants to help others that are referred to the clutches of Exodus. He invited all ex-gay survivors, as they call themselves, to a conference in opposition to the ex-gay movement. They can learn how one can be gay and nevertheless lead a godly [&hellip;]<\/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":[30,21,46,12],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ex-gays","tag-the-abyss","tag-the-kultar-kampf","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","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=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}