{"id":4042,"date":"2019-05-08T13:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2019-05-08T14:01:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:01:59","slug":"is-or-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4042","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;IS&#8221; ? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; OR &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8220;WAS&#8221; !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was born gay, and that is why I am gay.&#8221; ? ? ?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once gay, always gay.&#8221; ? ? ?<\/p>\n<p>No choice ? ? ?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>You have a choice !<\/p>\n<p>Just as a mother chooses to help her baby live, you can also choose life, by the grace of God.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;. . . such &#8216;were&#8217; some of you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No such thing that you are stuck with a condition that you claim you were &#8216;born with.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Parallel:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once a racist&#8212;always a racist.&#8221; ? ? ?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once a racist country&#8212;always a racist country.&#8221; ? ? ?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America is racist, because we supported slavery.&#8221; ? ? ?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>America, Americans, we have a choice, now.<\/p>\n<p>We can starve the media foment resurrecting racism, triggered by BHOB*.<\/p>\n<p>We can be thankful for things that are better than ever for many minorities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*BHOB\u2014Barack Hussein OBama\u2014Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: \u201cBeware of sheep\u2019s clothing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was born gay, and that is why I am gay.&#8221; ? ? ? &#8220;Once gay, always gay.&#8221; ? ? ? No choice ? ? ? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; You have a choice ! Just as a mother chooses to help her baby live, you can also choose life, by the grace of God. &#8220;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4044,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions\/4044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}