{"id":11522,"date":"2019-12-17T13:29:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T18:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11522"},"modified":"2019-12-17T13:29:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T18:29:48","slug":"implausible-headline-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11522","title":{"rendered":"Implausible headline of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baptistnews.com\/article\/baptist-professor-claims-he-was-fired-for-being-too-anti-gay\/#.XfkbPvxOmHu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Baptist professor claims he was fired for being too anti-gay<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A gadfly college professor who clings to the largely discredited practice of \u201cconversion\u201d therapy to change sexual orientation says the Southern Baptist Convention is wavering in its condemnation of homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the Southern Baptist Convention is going to flip on homosexuality, but they are going to do it very indirectly,\u201d Robert Oscar Lopez, until recently a humanities professor at the undergraduate arm of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, said in a recent interview with conservative Christian talk show host Bryan Fisher.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I live in Southern Baptist country, and I can guarantee you that there is no danger of the SBC ever &#8216;flipping&#8217;.  What is going on here is that Professor Lopez is so strident that even the crazies find him off-putting.  Still, the kernel of the story make for an engaging daydream.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure that, here to there, there must be Southern Baptists who don&#8217;t revile gays; in a denomination of about 15-million people it&#8217;s all but a statistical certainty that there are such.  But anybody who thinks gays will be welcomed into rural southern church &#8216;families&#8217; anytime soon is out of touch with reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baptist professor claims he was fired for being too anti-gay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11522\">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\/11522"}],"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=11522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11525,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522\/revisions\/11525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}