{"id":24803,"date":"2017-02-23T11:52:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T16:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24803"},"modified":"2017-02-23T12:03:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T17:03:37","slug":"the-canadian-blooming-of-franklin-graham-hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-canadian-blooming-of-franklin-graham-hysteria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Canadian blooming of Franklin Graham hysteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Journal, bastion of liberal thinkpol, tweets its smug approval of attempts to block Franklin Graham\u2019s visit to Canada:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24804\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/AJTweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/AJTweet.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/AJTweet-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/AJTweet-768x836.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Naturally, a United Church minister must <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/leaders-launch-petition-against-franklin-graham-1.3991375\" target=\"_blank\">get in on the act<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We live in a country that has free speech, but there&#8217;s a difference between free speech and hate speech&#8221; said Stevenson, who is also an ordained minister of the United Church of Canada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And there is the problem in a nutshell: if, when liberal orthodoxy is challenged, what is said is automatically classified as <em>hate speech<\/em>, then in Canada we do not live in a country that has free speech, do we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Journal, bastion of liberal thinkpol, tweets its smug approval of attempts to block Franklin Graham\u2019s visit to Canada: Naturally, a United Church minister must get in on the act: &#8220;We live in a country that has free speech, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-canadian-blooming-of-franklin-graham-hysteria\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[1682],"class_list":["post-24803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-and-politics","tag-franklin-graham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24803","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=24803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}