{"id":7605,"date":"2018-03-06T11:48:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T16:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7605"},"modified":"2018-03-06T11:48:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T16:48:16","slug":"books-for-evangelicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7605","title":{"rendered":"Books for evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I pointed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7130\" target=\"_blank\">early last December<\/a> toward a deluge of books, just in time for Christmas, which undertook to explain that Our Invisible Friend had raised-up The Very Stable Genius-in-Chief to save the Good Ol&#8217; U.S. of A. from all those vermin who go around having <i>non<\/i>-SBC-approved thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lc.org\/newsroom\/details\/022618-kim-davis-releases-new-book-1\" target=\"_blank\">another book<\/a> meant to exploit the Godly:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Kentucky County Clerk <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Kim Davis<\/span> released her new book, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Under God\u2019s Authority: The Kim Davis Story<\/span>. This true story goes behind the scenes to reveal how God gave this unlikely candidate a platform to defend marriage and religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>In this <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">amazing narrative of redemption and courage<\/span>, Davis details her personal experience from the moment Kentucky\u2019s governor ordered the state\u2019s county clerks to issue same-sex marriage licenses, throughout her arrest and release from jail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though Ms. Davis&#8217; refusal to obey the law can&#8217;t be overlooked, I have to admit I tended to view her as a sympathetic figure because of her long train of husbands and the awkward paternity of her children.  It isn&#8217;t difficult to see that she&#8217;s a badly screwed-up and insecure person, or that her &#8216;piety&#8217; is the source of whatever sense of self-worth she has.<\/p>\n<p>I probably won&#8217;t read this unless I can pick it up at a yard sale for 25-cents, but I do notice that no less than Mike Huckabee says &#8220;It&#8217;s a great read.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pointed early last December toward a deluge of books, just in time for Christmas, which undertook to explain that Our Invisible Friend had raised-up The Very Stable Genius-in-Chief to save the Good Ol&#8217; U.S. of A. from all those &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7605\">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\/7605"}],"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=7605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7608,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions\/7608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}