{"id":383,"date":"2012-05-22T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2012\/05\/a-great-example-of-gods-connection-to-morality.html"},"modified":"2012-05-22T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T17:01:00","slug":"a-great-example-of-gods-connection-to-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2012\/05\/a-great-example-of-gods-connection-to-morality.html","title":{"rendered":"A Great Example Of God&#8217;s Connection To Morality"},"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>Speaking of religion and morality, here\u2019s another in a seemingly endless flood of great moralist preachers calling for a great moral approach to gays and lesbians.\u00a0 It\u2019s presented to us by Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina:<\/p>\n<p>Build a great, big, large fence \u2014 150 or 100 mile long \u2014 put all the lesbians in there.\u00a0 Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can\u2019t get out\u2026and you know what, in a few years, they\u2019ll die out\u2026do you know why? They can\u2019t reproduce!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the foundation of his moral approach to this issue is that \u201cGod\u2019s ag-in it.\u201d\u00a0 Profound.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pretty sure science is not this man\u2019s forte, but someone should tell him that the vast majority of gay people are born to straight people.\u00a0 That kinda screws up his big plan.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of religion and morality, here\u2019s another in a seemingly endless flood of great moralist preachers calling for a great moral approach to gays and lesbians.\u00a0 It\u2019s presented to us by Charles L. 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