{"id":30358,"date":"2016-01-26T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T18:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=30358"},"modified":"2016-01-26T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T18:35:58","slug":"trumps-liberty-u-performance-was-insulting-to-christians-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/01\/trumps-liberty-u-performance-was-insulting-to-christians-everywhere.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Trump&#8217;s Liberty U performance was insulting to Christians everywhere&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30359\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/01\/800px-Liberty_University_Flames_stadium_Lynchburg_VA_IMG_4118.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30359\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/01\/800px-Liberty_University_Flames_stadium_Lynchburg_VA_IMG_4118-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Flames Stadium, or some such\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The stadium at Liberty University, in Lynchburg, Virginia<br>(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, has just endorsed Donald Trump for the presidency of the United States. \u00a0Which makes this article, by former House majority leader Tom DeLay, a hero of many people on the political Right, particularly interesting:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/donald-trump-liberty-university-insulting-to-christians-everywhere-opinion-155677\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/donald-trump-liberty-university-insulting-to-christians-everywhere-opinion-155677\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, has just endorsed Donald Trump for the presidency of the United States. \u00a0Which makes this article, by former House majority leader Tom DeLay, a hero of many people on the political Right, particularly interesting: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/donald-trump-liberty-university-insulting-to-christians-everywhere-opinion-155677\/ \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Trump&#039;s Liberty U performance was insulting to Christians everywhere&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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