{"id":1397,"date":"2011-02-07T14:13:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2011-02-08T12:10:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T19:10:22","slug":"minneapolis-gayest-city-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis: Gayest City in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move over, San Francisco. Minneapolis is #1 in the February issue of the gay magazine, <em>The Advocate, <\/em>which notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn the past decade, Minneapolis has become the gay magnet city of the Midwest. \u2026 This is where the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America took a historic leap forward and voted to accept gay and lesbian pastors.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article commends Minneapolis for its many \u201cgay-friendly congregations.\u201d Is it a coincidence that the gayest city is home to over a million Lutherans?<\/p>\n<p>But just try smoking in Minneapolis. Whoa, that\u2019s not PC, even though it\u2019s less deadly.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Bishop William Wantland, former Episcopal Bishop of Eau Claire WI and Native American, notes that \u201cgay-friendly\u201d churches promote \u201cdeath on a grand scale\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFirst, I am deeply disturbed by the action of a number of heterophoic bigots, who encourage homosexuals to engage in a practice which is cruel and deadly. 91% of all male homosexuals engage in anal sodomy. Regular practice of anal sodomy will shorten human life an average of 26 years, even without factoring in AIDS. These people, purporting to act in the name of the Church, are as evil as those who would give whiskey to alcoholics. What 815 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Ave. (Episcopal Church headquarters) is <strong>urging is death on a grand scale, and calling it care<\/strong> and support of their victims, without any regard for what they are doing. Don\u2019t ever say that The Episcopal Church cares for or loves its homosexual members.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For a superb summary of homosexuality issues, including the quote above, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroadtoemmaus.org\/RdLb\/22SxSo\/PnSx\/HSx\/20HosxFAQs.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over, San Francisco. Minneapolis is #1 in the February issue of the gay magazine, The Advocate, which notes: \u201cIn the past decade, Minneapolis has become the gay magnet city of the Midwest. \u2026 This is where the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America took a historic leap forward and voted to accept gay and lesbian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}