{"id":6766,"date":"2012-01-05T02:05:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T02:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=6766"},"modified":"2012-01-05T16:46:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T16:46:29","slug":"journalistic-fail-christian-group-prays-for-george-michaels-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=6766","title":{"rendered":"Journalistic FAIL &#8211; Christian Group Prays For George Michael&#8217;s Death? UPDATE: There Were Prayers For His Death&#8230; But, Not By A Church."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Journalistic%20FAIL%20-%20Christian%20Group%20Prays%20For%20George%20Michael%27s%20Death%3F%20UPDATE%3A%20There%20Were%20Prayers%20For%20His%20Death...%20But%2C%20Not%20By%20A%20Church.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>That&#8217;s what the story says. Here is the MSNBC take on this episode:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Loving your fellow man&#8230;the golden rule&#8230;all concepts apparently lost on a radical, hate-propagating Christian group known as Christians for a Moral America.<\/p>\n<p>Back in November, when George Michael went through a lengthy hospitalization after a life-threatening bout of pneumonia, fans and friends were sending thoughts his way. But the CFAMA was sending something else entirely \u2014 a call for its followers <strong>to pray for his death<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is what that Christian group <a href=\"http:\/\/christiansforamoralamerica.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/popstar-george-michael-on-his-deathbed.html\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>George Michael is reportedly close to death after being struck down with pneumonia (a symptom of AIDS). The popstar, who was outed as a homosexual back in the 90&#8217;s after being caught having sex with another man in a public bathroom (a common homosexual behavior) is notorious for having lived the &#8220;fast life&#8221; and plaguing his body with drugs and no doubt sexual diseases. It&#8217;s almost symbolic that just after the 20th anniversary of Freddie Mercury&#8217;s death from AIDS that another famous homosexual would succumb to this disease.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We pray that George Michael has found salvation through Christ in his last days<\/strong> otherwise he will pay for his unrepentant lifestyle in hell. And for all those involved in this deviant lifestyle and want to change before it&#8217;s too late, please head over to narth.org where they can help you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, what they wrote was the type of unfeeling, inaccurate  and tasteless knee-jerk reaction we&#8217;ve come to expect of the typical gay-fearing rabid Christian sect, and I&#8217;m not defending them for their blind intolerance in any way. However, they did not encourage their flock to &#8220;<strong><em>pray for his death<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;, but to pray for his salvation if he dies! There is a HUGE difference there. <\/p>\n<p>We expect this kind of idiotic blurbs to come from Christian organizations of this nature. But the MSNBC story is simply inane and inaccurate. Even though it is a entertainment fluff piece and not relevant to anyone&#8217;s life, other than George Michael and the members of the Christian group, we never the less should expect better journalism from those who call themselves journalists, even the entertainment ones. <\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong>  I stand corrected &#8211; Michael James has provided info that confirms the MSNBC assertion!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Actually, the man behind CFAMA, who tweets under the name \u2018@godswordislaw\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitpic.com\/7knd6e\">DID call for a prayer for George Michael\u2019s death<\/a>!  It\u2019s just not in the article, and that\u2019s where MSNBC gets it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, this is all nit-picking in comparison to MSNBC\u2019s real clanger of calling CFAMA a \u201cChristian group\u201d with \u201cfollowers\u201d. In reality, <a href=\"http:\/\/anatheistviewpoint.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/hopefully-last-post-about-godswordislaw.html\">it\u2019s just one attention-seeking individual who tweets inflammatory nonsense<\/a>, and is in all probability a hoax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s the kind of journalism I like to see &#8211; Complete with links. Thanks Mr James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Journalistic%20FAIL%20-%20Christian%20Group%20Prays%20For%20George%20Michael%27s%20Death%3F%20UPDATE%3A%20There%20Were%20Prayers%20For%20His%20Death...%20But%2C%20Not%20By%20A%20Church.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>That&#8217;s what the story says. Here is the MSNBC take on this episode: Loving your fellow man&#8230;the golden rule&#8230;all concepts apparently lost on a radical, hate-propagating Christian group known as Christians for a Moral America. Back in November, when George Michael went through a lengthy hospitalization after a life-threatening bout of pneumonia, fans and friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6766"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6774,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6766\/revisions\/6774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}