{"id":217,"date":"2009-01-13T20:19:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T00:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=217"},"modified":"2009-01-13T20:19:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T00:19:02","slug":"did-you-know-this-yuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/217\/did-you-know-this-yuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know this? Yuck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-style:normal;\">Pastor John:<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-style:normal;\">Did you know about this?\u00a0 Yuck! \u00a0[Excerpt of news report below.]<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-style:normal;\">TE<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a style=\"color:#0000ff;\" title=\"Permanent Link: Openly gay bishop to deliver first inauguration event\u00a0invocation\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/01\/12\/openly-gay-bishop-to-deliver-first-inauguration-event-invocation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\">Openly gay bishop to deliver first inauguration event invocation<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>(CNN) \u2014 <\/strong>The first openly gay priest ordained by a major Christian denomination will deliver the invocation at the kickoff inauguration event Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The Rev. Gene Robinson, Episcopal bishop in New Hampshire, has accepted an invitation issued by the Obama team prior to the announcement of the Rev. Rick Warren&#8217;s selection to deliver the invocation at the president-elect&#8217;s swearing-in, <a style=\"color:#000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/playbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Politico<\/span><\/strong><\/a> reported Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Robinson had been a critic of Warren&#8217;s role, calling his inclusion in the event &#8220;really, really unfortunate&#8221; because of the California minister&#8217;s support for California&#8217;s Prop. 8, which barred same-sex marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s about this particular venue and the role that he has in praying for all of America, and I&#8217;m just not sure he&#8217;d pray to God the same way I would,&#8221; Robinson [said] last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hey TE:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Yes, this is awful.\u00a0 How bad it feels!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Every young person around the world who watches that inauguration event will no doubt see the AmericaIsrael, &#8220;<\/em> media glorify that perverse man&#8217;s character.\u00a0 Being elected President has put\u00a0Barack Obama in a position to\u00a0influence young people for good, but\u00a0with this choice, he will be\u00a0using it to do much evil.\u00a0 What is God going to do to this country?\u00a0 His silence does not imply His consent.\u00a0 he told the sinners of <em>I held my peace, and you thought I was altogether such a one as you&#8221; (Ps. 50:21).\u00a0 How many people mistake God&#8217;s patience with God&#8217;s approval! <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Years ago, a comedian got a lot of laughs when he commented on the number of sodomites out west.\u00a0 He said, &#8220;If God doesn&#8217;t destroy California, he&#8217;ll owe Sodom an apology.&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s not just California now, and when God finishes his work of judgment (whenever He chooses to do it), He will owe no apologies.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>How we need this to happen:\u00a0 &#8220;<\/em><em>When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.&#8221; <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Who among our young people is on the Lord&#8217;s side?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John: Did you know about this?\u00a0 Yuck! \u00a0[Excerpt of news report below.] TE Openly gay bishop to deliver first inauguration event invocation (CNN) \u2014 The first openly gay priest ordained by a major Christian denomination will deliver the invocation at the kickoff inauguration event Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial. The Rev. Gene Robinson, Episcopal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}