{"id":23183,"date":"2015-07-14T13:48:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23183"},"modified":"2015-07-14T21:30:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T01:30:42","slug":"the-church-of-the-condom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-church-of-the-condom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church of the Immaculate Condom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was over 50 years ago that Malcolm Muggeridge wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was correct, of course, and nowhere is it more applicable than in the Anglican Church of Canada, The United Church and TEC, where the imaginary freedom of unfettered gay sex has been set at a higher priority than inconvenient Biblical truth.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Theological Seminary, affiliated with the United Church, is in full agreement:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23184\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Condom.jpg\" alt=\"Condom\" width=\"554\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Condom.jpg 554w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Condom-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/gay-sex-second-coming-of-christ\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It may take you a moment to understand what you\u2019re seeing here.<\/p>\n<p>This is a condom that was given out last week at the 2015 Wild Goose Festival, an annual progressive Christian hootenanny. Chicago Theological Seminary is a left-wing seminary affiliated with the United Church of Christ. The rainbow fire logo is an LGBT-friendly version of the UCC\u2019s own logo seminary\u2019s logo.<\/p>\n<p>The text advises takers to grab two condoms in case of two orgasms.<\/p>\n<p>It likens the Second Coming of Christ to sex, in particular gay sex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was over 50 years ago that Malcolm Muggeridge wrote: The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment. He was correct, of course, and nowhere is it more applicable than in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-church-of-the-condom\/\">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":[178],"tags":[2168],"class_list":["post-23183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality-and-the-church","tag-homosexuality-and-the-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183","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=23183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}