{"id":290,"date":"2009-01-16T04:08:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T09:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/?p=290"},"modified":"2009-01-16T12:37:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T17:37:20","slug":"being-gay-is-a-gift-from-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Being Gay is a Gift from God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tKiue4c2Fjw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tKiue4c2Fjw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Oprah invited three spiritual leaders on her January 9, 2009\u00a0show to respond to the concerns of real people as they struggled with life\u2019s challenges. One such person was Sedrick, a gay man, who was struggling with his finances. Rev. Ed Bacon, an Episcopal priest and one of the spiritual advisors, addressed the young man\u2019s lack of a sense of self worth by saying that, \u201dbeing gay is a gift from God, but our culture doesn&#8217;t understand that, consequently, the culture sends messages &#8220;you oughta isolate.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;And,&#8221; he says, &#8220;isolation is the antithesis of what we all need.&#8221; Minister Bernard Beckwith, another advisor, assured Sedrick that \u201c\u2026he is the image and likeness of God&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oprah invited three spiritual leaders on her January 9, 2009\u00a0show to respond to the concerns of real people as they struggled with life\u2019s challenges. One such person was Sedrick, a gay man, who was struggling with his finances. Rev. Ed Bacon, an Episcopal priest and one of the spiritual advisors, addressed the young man\u2019s lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}