{"id":13571,"date":"2011-07-11T17:34:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T21:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=13571"},"modified":"2011-07-11T17:34:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T21:34:34","slug":"bishop-mary-glasspool-extols-obamas-virtues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-mary-glasspool-extols-obamas-virtues\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Mary Glasspool extols Obama\u2019s virtues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/nc\/news-update-items\/article\/glasspool-applauds-obama-on-gay-rights-9916.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13573\" title=\"Glassy\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Glassy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Los Angeles<\/strong>\u2014Praising the Obama administration for upholding the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) persons in domestic and international contexts, Diocese of Los Angeles Bishop Suffragan Mary D. Glasspool attended a June 29 White House reception and policy briefing in honor of LGBT Pride Month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those who might be confused, LGBT means Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender.<\/p>\n<p>The Anglican Church believes that the sexual urges of those in the first three categories are placed there by God. And obviously God doesn\u2019t make mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>It also believes that the last category contains people whom God plopped into a body of the wrong sex. So in their case, he <em>does<\/em> make mistakes. The theological term for this apparent contradiction used to be known as an antinomy, but that was too hard for Anglican theologians to understand \u2013 or pronounce \u2013 so now it\u2019s called a muddle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Los Angeles\u2014Praising the Obama administration for upholding the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) persons in domestic and international contexts, Diocese of Los Angeles Bishop Suffragan Mary D. Glasspool attended a June 29 White House &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-mary-glasspool-extols-obamas-virtues\/\">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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[501,2167,2215],"class_list":["post-13571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barmy-bishops","tag-bishop-mary-glasspool","tag-homosexuality","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13571","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=13571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}