{"id":1138,"date":"2014-03-05T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=18236"},"modified":"2014-03-05T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T18:28:16","slug":"the-link-between-anti-gay-church-teachings-and-the-millennial-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2014\/03\/the-link-between-anti-gay-church-teachings-and-the-millennial-exodus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Link Between Anti-Gay Church Teachings and the Millennial Exodus"},"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>In his latest for Sacred Matters, PRRI Research Director Daniel Cox examines the role negative church teachings about, or treatment of, 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