{"id":10259,"date":"2016-02-19T12:11:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T16:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10259"},"modified":"2016-02-19T12:11:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T16:11:14","slug":"what-conservative-gay-christians-want-im-in-the-spectator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2016\/02\/what-conservative-gay-christians-want-im-in-the-spectator.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What Conservative Gay Christians Want&#8221;: I&#8217;m in the Spectator"},"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>spectating:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The LGBT rights movement \u2014 so the story goes \u2014 has split the Christian churches in two. On one side are the progressives, who believe that Christianity should accept gay people and recognise gay marriage. Lined up against them are the conservatives, who hold fast to the belief that being gay is sinful. It\u2019s not entirely false, that story. There are just a vast number of Christians who don\u2019t fit into it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/2016\/02\/what-conservative-gay-christians-want\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a>\u2013I love the ending of this<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>spectating: The LGBT rights movement \u2014 so the story goes \u2014 has split the Christian churches in two. On one side are the progressives, who believe that Christianity should accept gay people and recognise gay marriage. Lined up against them are the conservatives, who hold fast to the belief that being gay is sinful. 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