{"id":1717,"date":"2015-04-16T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=23689"},"modified":"2015-04-16T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T12:00:55","slug":"morning-buzz-jonathan-merritt-how-christians-turned-against-gay-conversion-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2015\/04\/morning-buzz-jonathan-merritt-how-christians-turned-against-gay-conversion-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Buzz | Jonathan Merritt: How Christians Turned Against Gay Conversion Therapy"},"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 today\u2019s buzz, why American Christians are turning against gay conversion therapy 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