{"id":34171,"date":"2011-06-13T11:34:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T15:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/?p=34171"},"modified":"2011-06-13T11:34:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T15:34:05","slug":"petition-calls-on-southern-baptists-to-apologize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/2011\/06\/13\/34171","title":{"rendered":"Petition Calls On Southern Baptists To Apologize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large group of Southern Baptists will gather in Phoenix this week for their annual convention. As leading proponents of ex-gay ministries, they have been front and center of a larger anti-gay political movement. Several LGBT advocacy groups plan to greet the convention with a gathering of their own. <a href=\"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.faithinamerica.org\/\">Faith in America<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.soulforce.org\/\">Soulforce<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.truthwinsout.org\/\">Truth Wins Out<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/getequal.org\/\">Get Equal<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.wabaptists.org\/\">Association of Affirming and Welcoming Baptists<\/a> will join a local group of Phoenix-area clergy known as <a href=\"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.believeoutloud.com\/\">Believe Out Loud<\/a>\u00a0for a demonstration calling on the Southern Baptist Convention to apologize for the harm its teachings have caused the LGBT community, particularly to the youth. There is an <a href=\"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/org2.democracyinaction.org\/o\/6535\/p\/dia\/action\/public\/?action_KEY=7147\">online petition<\/a>\u00a0which will be hand-delivered following a protest outside the SBC&#8217;s annual meeting in Phoenix on Wednesday, a day that marks the religious group&#8217;s historic apology to African Americans for supporting slavery and Jim Crow laws.<\/p>\n<p>So far, more than 5,000 people have signed the petition calling on the SBC to apologize. You can add your name to the petition <a href=\"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/org2.democracyinaction.org\/o\/6535\/p\/dia\/action\/public\/?action_KEY=7147\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large group of Southern Baptists will gather in Phoenix this week for their annual convention. As leading proponents of ex-gay ministries, they have been front and center of a larger anti-gay political movement. Several LGBT advocacy groups plan to greet the convention with a gathering of their own. Faith in America, Soulforce, Truth Wins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[87,1023,1661,800,307,1119,381],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34172,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34171\/revisions\/34172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->