{"id":462,"date":"2004-10-09T21:44:11","date_gmt":"2004-10-10T01:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=462"},"modified":"2004-10-09T21:44:11","modified_gmt":"2004-10-10T01:44:11","slug":"prophets-of-baal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/prophets-of-baal\/","title":{"rendered":"Prophets of Baal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The American Academy of Religion slides toward decadence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40819\">http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40819<\/a><br \/>\nThe Gay Men&#8217;s Issues in Religion Group within the AAR has set for its theme for the program: &#8220;Power and Submission, Pain and Pleasure: The Religious Dynamics of Sadomasochism.&#8221; It also has another session on the program, half of which is devoted to transgenderism. <\/p>\n<p>Last year, Gagnon says, the group featured a session on the topic: &#8220;Love Is a Many Splendored Thing: Varied Views on Polyamory.&#8221; (Don&#8217;t bother looking up that last word in the dictionary. It&#8217;s not there yet. It means having sexual relations with more than one partner at a time.) <\/p>\n<p>About the &#8220;Power and Submission&#8221; topic, the program explains: <\/p>\n<p>  Sadomasochistic or bondage\/dominance practice (sometimes also referred to as &#8220;leather sexuality&#8221;) &#8230; offers a particularly potent location for reflecting on gay men&#8217;s issues in religion. <\/p>\n<p>One of the papers presented by Justin Tanis of the Metropolitan Community Church, a homosexual &#8220;denomination,&#8221; if you will, is titled &#8220;Ecstatic Communion: The Spiritual Dimensions of Leathersexuality.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40819\">World Net Daily<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Academy of Religion slides toward decadence. http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40819 The Gay Men&#8217;s Issues in Religion Group within the AAR has set for its theme for the program: &#8220;Power and Submission, Pain and Pleasure: The Religious Dynamics of Sadomasochism.&#8221; It also has another session on the program, half of which is devoted to transgenderism. Last year, &#8230; <a title=\"Prophets of Baal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/prophets-of-baal\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Prophets of Baal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-in-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}