{"id":170,"date":"2008-08-18T12:25:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T16:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2008-08-18T12:25:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T16:25:47","slug":"have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-vicar-the-lapdancer-the-muslim-and-the-lesbian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-vicar-the-lapdancer-the-muslim-and-the-lesbian\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you heard the one about the Vicar, the Lapdancer, the Muslim and the Lesbian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No? Then the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/2570769\/Channel-Four-vicar-says-her-show-makes-Christianity-look-sex-obsessed.html\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph<\/a> will enlighten you. The gullible Rev. Joanna, the vicar in question, is Anglican, naturally. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/multimedia\/archive\/00791\/RevJepson_791652c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The vicar starring in a new Channel Four reality show has accused the programme&#8217;s makers of deliberately making Christians appear obsessed with sex.<br \/>\n&#8220;There was clearly an agenda behind making the programme designed to make Christians look obsessed with people&#8217;s sex lives and intent on imposing Christian behaviour on everyone else,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Christian behaviour is only possible after a spiritual transformation. We were encouraged to take part on the understanding that we were dealing with a group of people who genuinely wanted to embrace Christianity. But that was clearly not the case.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Making Anglicans appear obsessed with sex is hardly an innovation of Channel 4: the notion was clearly lifted straight from Lambeth.<\/p>\n<p>One has to admit, though that the \u201cintent on imposing Christian behaviour on everyone else\u201d while a startlingly fresh idea, is one entirely foreign to Anglicans, who are even unwilling to impose Christian behaviour on themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No? Then the Telegraph will enlighten you. The gullible Rev. Joanna, the vicar in question, is Anglican, naturally. The vicar starring in a new Channel Four reality show has accused the programme&#8217;s makers of deliberately making Christians appear obsessed with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-vicar-the-lapdancer-the-muslim-and-the-lesbian\/\">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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,94],"tags":[2030,991,1400,2249],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-angst","category-daft","tag-anglican","tag-lambeth","tag-satire","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}