{"id":13454,"date":"2021-10-27T13:02:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T17:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13454"},"modified":"2021-10-27T13:02:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T17:02:38","slug":"when-labels-go-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13454","title":{"rendered":"When labels go bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, the inevitable has happened: their close association with Donald Trump has given &#8216;evangelicals&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2021\/10\/22\/christian-evangelical-church-post-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the bad name they deserve<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lambert said that he stopped referring to himself as an evangelical in the past few years because it does more harm than good in his more liberal city of Austin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want people to know that I\u2019m a pastor until two drinks in,\u201d he said. <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">\u201cThe word \u2018evangelical\u2019 does nothing for me. It\u2019s only negative. Trump was the last straw.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh &#8212; Good Luck with that.  Donald Trump &#8212; the nonstop lying and corrupt business practices and incandescent hypocrisy &#8212; is who evangelicals really are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, the inevitable has happened: their close association with Donald Trump has given &#8216;evangelicals&#8217; the bad name they deserve. Lambert said that he stopped referring to himself as an evangelical in the past few years because it does more harm &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13454\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454"}],"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=13454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13456,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions\/13456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}