{"id":17296,"date":"2013-09-04T11:45:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=17296"},"modified":"2013-09-04T11:45:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T15:45:07","slug":"not-all-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/09\/not-all-like-that.html","title":{"rendered":"Not All Like That"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Thanks to John Shore for drawing my attention to the NALT Christians Project website<\/a>. NALT stands for \u201cNot All Like That,\u201d and it is a call for Christians who tell LGBT people \u201cwe are not all like that\u201d to say that loudly and not just privately. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here is an introductory video by Dan Savage about the project. Savage should be familiar to you from his work on the \u201cIt Gets Better\u201d project.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<p>And it was cool to get to see and hear Fred Clark, whose blog Slacktivist I love reading:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NALT Christians: Fred Clark in Pennsylvania\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bcHCqS74tSk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to John Shore for drawing my attention to the NALT Christians Project website. NALT stands for \u201cNot All Like That,\u201d and it is a call for Christians who tell LGBT people \u201cwe are not all like that\u201d to say that loudly and not just privately. 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