{"id":10417,"date":"2010-12-07T10:56:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T15:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10417"},"modified":"2010-12-07T10:56:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T15:56:59","slug":"an-unusual-reason-for-kicking-someone-out-of-a-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-unusual-reason-for-kicking-someone-out-of-a-church\/","title":{"rendered":"An unusual reason for kicking someone out of a church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/international\/aussie_woman_kicked_out_of_church_X2kCGdf4ZQpZTDXJMMU0pO#ixzz13TPLITmp\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The star of an erectile dysfunction commercial in Australia was kicked out of her church until the ad comes off air, the Herald Sun reported today.<\/p>\n<p>Libby Ashby told Melbourne-based radio station 3AW she had been &#8220;disfellowshipped&#8221; from her local congregation after appearing in the ad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have said I would not be reinstated until the ad comes off the air,&#8221; Ashby said, while not identifying which church she attends.<\/p>\n<p>Ashby, a single mother, said she knew when she was filming the AMI ad that it was in poor taste.<\/p>\n<p>But she said she had taken the job because of the money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My VISA was calling out for mercy,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was against my better judgement to it. I don&#8217;t like to offend people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kcNmXILlBCs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kcNmXILlBCs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Ashby doesn&#8217;t like to offend people &#8211; a compunction which I don&#8217;t share &#8211; but she chose a strange way to show it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The star of an erectile dysfunction commercial in Australia was kicked out of her church until the ad comes off air, the Herald Sun reported today. Libby Ashby told Melbourne-based radio station 3AW she had been &#8220;disfellowshipped&#8221; from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-unusual-reason-for-kicking-someone-out-of-a-church\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}