{"id":650,"date":"2014-02-25T16:36:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T00:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=650"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:58:07","slug":"josh-barro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2014\/02\/25\/josh-barro\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Barro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just became aware of reporter and (Republican, gay) commentator Josh Barro, triggered by news that he&#8217;s leaving Business Insider for the New York Times, though it turns out I\u2019d read a piece by him before a few weeks back: <a href=\u201d http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/phil-robertson-duck-dynasty-two-americas-2013-12\u201c>There Are Two Americas, And One Is Better Than The Other<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today came across a series of posts from around the same time (last December) in which he specifically addressed Phil Robertson, and why he doesn\u2019t sweat the \u201chaters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/this-is-why-phil-robertson-is-wrong-about-gays-2013-12\">This is Why Phil Robertson is Wrong About the Gays<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/when-you-defend-phil-robertson-heres-what-youre-really-defending-2013-12\">When You Defend Phil Robertson Here\u2019s What You\u2019re Really Defending<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/heres-why-i-dont-sweat-the-haters-2013-12\">Here\u2019s Why I Don\u2019t Sweat the Haters<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMy inbox is full of &#8220;love the sinner, hate the sin&#8221; defenses of Robertson&#8217;s 2013 remarks. But Robertson doesn&#8217;t love gay people. He thinks they&#8217;re, well, &#8220;full of murder.&#8221; His views on gays are <i>hateful<\/i>, inasmuch as they are full of hate.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, it&#8217;s remarkable how often these things come as a package. Robertson&#8217;s sincere doctrinal view about the sinfulness of homosexuality comes packaged with animus toward gays and retrograde views about blacks and non-Christians. It&#8217;s almost as though social conservatism is primarily fueled by a desire to protect the privileges of what was once a straight, white Christian in-group, rather than by sincere religious convictions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just became aware of reporter and (Republican, gay) commentator Josh Barro, triggered by news that he&#8217;s leaving Business Insider for the New York Times, though it turns out I\u2019d read a piece by him before a few weeks back: There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2014\/02\/25\/josh-barro\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-the-gays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}