{"id":2640,"date":"2017-03-13T04:23:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T11:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2017-03-13T04:26:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T11:26:01","slug":"idol-alum-prays-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/03\/13\/idol-alum-prays-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Idol Alum Prays Gay Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ask your indulgence in this next story because, to be honest, I have no idea what I’m talking about.\u00a0 I had abandoned “American Idol” long before it limped to its final days on the tube.\u00a0 But I vaguely remember La’Porsha<\/strong>.\u00a0 What can I say?\u00a0 I have a penchant for big black women with apostrophes in their names.\u00a0 I went back in the archives of BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>, and read some quotes she made when the so-called “bathroom bill” passed in her native Mississippi.\u00a0 On the topic of homosexuality, she said, “I am one of the people who doesn’t really agree with that lifestyle.\u00a0 I wasn’t brought up that way, it wasn’t how I was raised.\u00a0 But I do have a lot of friends and a lot of people that I love dearly who are gay and homosexual and they’re such sweet, nice people.”\u00a0 So I find it all the more mind-boggling that now, a scant year later, she’s made what I find a startling statement: “I chose to be heterosexual after being homosexual for 2 years.”\u00a0 Huh?\u00a0 Turns out, this revelation is in support of another one of her beliefs.\u00a0 “You’re wrong to think it’s not a choice for some…because it was for me.”\u00a0 She has also said, “I chose a belief system that felt TRUE to my spirit.”\u00a0 She calls it a choice.\u00a0 Others might call it denial.<\/p>\n

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I ask your indulgence in this next story because, to be honest, I have no idea what I’m talking about.\u00a0 I had abandoned “American Idol” long before it limped to its final days on the tube.\u00a0 But I vaguely remember La’Porsha.\u00a0 What can I say?\u00a0 I have a penchant for big black women with apostrophes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}