{"id":10412,"date":"2019-06-14T12:21:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T16:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10412"},"modified":"2019-06-14T12:21:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T16:21:54","slug":"the-sickness-on-the-right-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10412","title":{"rendered":"The sickness on the Right, <i>ctd<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Tennessee sheriff&#8217;s deputy has been placed on leave because he delivered a church sermon calling for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/story\/news\/2019\/06\/12\/knox-county-detective-calls-execution-lgbtq-people\/1419137001\/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&#038;utm_campaign=d7828ffd9e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_14_12_57&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-d7828ffd9e-400679469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">execution of gay people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Knox County Attorney General&#8217;s Office said it is looking into a church sermon by a Knox County sheriff&#8217;s detective that called for the government to arrest and execute LGBTQ community members.<\/p>\n<p>In the hourlong sermon based on an Old Testament passage, Detective Grayson Fritts, also a pastor at All Scripture Baptist Church in Knoxville, told his congregation June 2 that he believes that federal, state and county governments should arrest, try, convict and &#8220;speedily&#8221; execute people within the LGBTQ community on no more grounds than a cell phone photo of a person participating in a Pride event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can see the problem: The Inerrant Bible, which is totally true and trustworthy according to every Christian Holy Man on earth, really does call for the execution of LGBTQ people.  What is a simple Pious believer to do but demand their execution?<\/p>\n<p>After all, that&#8217;s what Our Invisible Friend commands us &#8212; right?<\/p>\n<p>The other possibility &#8212; which I favor, by the way &#8212; is that the claim of Biblical inerrancy is a marketing lie that serves nobody&#8217;s interest but Holy Men, who are supposed to be experts in interpreting the Bible, and only morons fall for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tennessee sheriff&#8217;s deputy has been placed on leave because he delivered a church sermon calling for the execution of gay people. The Knox County Attorney General&#8217;s Office said it is looking into a church sermon by a Knox County &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10412\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10414,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412\/revisions\/10414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}