{"id":155,"date":"2005-01-07T17:17:33","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T17:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebgal.com\/wordpress\/?p=155"},"modified":"2005-01-07T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2005-01-07T17:17:33","slug":"fundamental-christian-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Fundamental Christian Charity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News from UFMCC Headquarters &#8230;<br \/>\nJanuary 7, 2005\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMetropolitan Community Church&#8217;s relief efforts on behalf of victims of the tsunami were saluted on Al Franken&#8217;s national (US) radio talk show,  The Al Franken Show.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFranken pointed out that, as of earlier this week, none of the &#8220;religious self-righteous websites&#8221; (his words)  even mentioned the tsunami disaster (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.org\/\">Christian Coalition<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrobertson.com\/\">Pat Robertson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/falwell.com\/\">Jerry Falwell<\/a>, etc &#8212; &#8220;while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucc.org\/index3.html\">the United Church of Christ<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccchurch.org\/\">Metropolitan  Community  Churches<\/a>, and some reformed Jewish groups all had the disaster and disaster relief prominently displayed on their websites&#8230;&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Al Franken Show is carried live on Air America Network on both Sirius and XM satellite radio, and on more than 50 radio stations across the U.S.  Franken, a former star of Saturday Night Live, is the author of several books, including the New York Times #1 bestseller &#8220;Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWant to send some help to the survivors of the Tsunami?<br \/>\nI recommend you use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charitynavigator.org\/\">Charity Navigator<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bbbnewyork.org\/charityreports\/\"><br \/>\nThe Better Business Bureau National Information System<\/a><br \/>\nto help evaluate what charities to give to, based on ranking and percentage of donated money that is used for administration vs. money that is used for the program itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News from UFMCC Headquarters &#8230; January 7, 2005 Metropolitan Community Church&#8217;s relief efforts on behalf of victims of the tsunami were saluted on Al Franken&#8217;s national (US) radio talk show, The Al Franken Show. Franken pointed out that, as of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=155\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}