{"id":9285,"date":"2010-07-09T17:21:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T21:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9285"},"modified":"2010-07-09T17:21:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T21:21:28","slug":"jesus-offends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/jesus-offends\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus offends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another reason to like him. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2010\/07\/09\/pastor-yanked-capitol-jesus-prayer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A North Carolina pastor was relieved of his  duties as an honorary chaplain of the state house of representatives  after he closed a prayer by invoking the name of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got fired,\u201d said Ron Baity, pastor of  Berean Baptist Church in Winston-Salem. He had been invited to lead  prayer for an entire week but his tenure was cut short when he refused  to remove the name Jesus from his invocation.<\/p>\n<p>Baity\u2019s troubles began during the week of  May 31. He said a House clerk asked to see his prayer. The invocation  including prayers for our military, state lawmakers and a petition to  God asking him to bless North Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I handed it to the lady, I watched her  eyes and they immediately went right to the bottom of the page and the  word Jesus,\u201d he told FOX News Radio. \u201cShe said \u2018We would prefer that you  not use the name Jesus. We have some people here that can be  offended.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Baity protested, she brought the matter  to the attention of House Speaker Joe Hackney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An application of 1 Corinthians 1:18.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2010\/07\/09\/pastor-yanked-capitol-jesus-prayer\/<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another reason to like him. From Fox: A North Carolina pastor was relieved of his duties as an honorary chaplain of the state house of representatives after he closed a prayer by invoking the name of Jesus. \u201cI got fired,\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/jesus-offends\/\">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":[193],"tags":[878,2181],"class_list":["post-9285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jesus","tag-i-am-so-offended","tag-jesus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285","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=9285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}