{"id":4463,"date":"2016-08-18T17:20:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T21:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4463"},"modified":"2016-08-18T17:21:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T21:21:02","slug":"franklin-graham-not-welcome-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4463","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Graham: Not welcome here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is fun: An improbable alliance of five Vancouver-area Catholic and Evangelical leaders have released a letter inviting Franklin Graham to please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/evangelicals.and.catholics.oppose.franklin.grahams.upcoming.appearance.in.vancouver\/93427.htm?utm_content=buffer8ce9a&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">stay out of their tow<\/a>n.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Evangelical and Catholic leaders in Vancouver, Canada, have come together to oppose an upcoming visit by the televangelist Franklin Graham, calling him &#8220;incendiary and intolerant&#8221; as well as &#8220;ungracious and bigoted&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>The letter went on: &#8220;We &#8230; denounce the frequent incendiary and intolerant statements made by Rev Graham, which he unapologetically reiterates.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good for them.  Graham is an odious man all the way down and, though they will doubtless feel the sting of charges from the Pious that they aren&#8217;t behaving like good Christians, I think it&#8217;s high time that decent-minded people of all beliefs start holding such as Graham accountable for their bad behavior.  Well done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is fun: An improbable alliance of five Vancouver-area Catholic and Evangelical leaders have released a letter inviting Franklin Graham to please stay out of their town. Evangelical and Catholic leaders in Vancouver, Canada, have come together to oppose an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4463\">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\/4463"}],"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=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4465,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions\/4465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}