{"id":447,"date":"2015-03-27T08:08:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T12:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2015-03-27T08:14:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T12:14:05","slug":"discerning-his-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Discerning His will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, boy &#8212; this is what you get when nutcases are indulged instead of ignored.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>In Colorado, lawmaker Gordon Klingenschmitt and radio host Kevin Swanson instruct the Pious that the recent case in which a woman&#8217;s baby was stolen via an <i>ad hoc<\/i> C-section may have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/colorado-pastor-god-directed-attack-pregnant-woman-teach-us-lesson-about-abortion-rights\" target=\"_blank\">organized by God<\/a> in order to graphically demonstrate that abortion is wrong.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>George Zimmerman says God is in control and must have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/03\/25\/george-zimmerman-gods-plan_n_6938456.html?cps=gravity_2450_-745748134820114561\" target=\"_blank\">wanted Trayvon Martin to die<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a video released on Monday by the law firm Ayo and Iken, which represents Zimmerman, the 31-year-old said he has a clear conscience and does not believe things could have turned out differently that day in Sanford, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe God has his plans, and for me to second-guess them would be hypocritical, almost blasphemous,\u201d he said in the video.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/okcross.jpg\" width=125 class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;margin:10px;\">After tornadoes swept through Oklahoma on Wednesday &#8212; killing one, injuring dozens, and the <i>de rigueur<\/i> demolition of a couple of trailer parks &#8212; some pitiful yahoo took the photo at the right and happily pronounced God in control.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, nobody has yet blamed the tornadoes on His dismay at Oklahoma&#8217;s efforts to frustrate same-sex marriage by allowing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=newssearch&#038;cd=1&#038;cad=rja&#038;uact=8&#038;ved=0CB0QqQIoADAA&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2015%2F03%2F12%2Foklahoma-gay-marriage_n_6858424.html&#038;ei=tUUVVbOpIIbuoATT5YHIDA&#038;usg=AFQjCNGzeCyMR39f3tLqoduCm3E2KwTCOw&#038;sig2=6Xak0anpjjBvMULyStWtjg&#038;bvm=bv.89381419,d.cGU\" target=\"_blank\">only clergy to perform weddings<\/a>, or a bill which would require businesses which will not serve gays to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/outward\/2015\/03\/13\/oklahoma_legislator_wants_anti_gay_businesses_to_post_no_gays_allowed_signs.html\" target=\"_blank\">public announcement<\/a> of it, though that is at least as reasonable as anything Gordon Klingenschmitt ever said.<\/ul>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, boy &#8212; this is what you get when nutcases are indulged instead of ignored. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=447\">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\/447"}],"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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}