{"id":25350,"date":"2024-11-16T03:54:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T11:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25350"},"modified":"2024-11-16T03:54:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T11:54:19","slug":"easier-for-students-to-come-out-as-gay-than-christian-evangelical-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/easier-for-students-to-come-out-as-gay-than-christian-evangelical-group-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Easier for students to come out as gay than Christian, Evangelical group says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In schools across Northern Ireland, students are finding it more challenging to reveal their Christian faith than their sexual orientation, according to testimony provided during an ongoing inquiry into Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) at Stormont.<\/p>\n<p>David Smyth, a representative of the Evangelical Alliance Northern Ireland, told the Education Committee that some young people find it \u201cmuch more difficult now to come out as an Evangelical Christian in school than it is to come out as LGBT,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn8l614431zo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a>\u00a0to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/easier-for-students-to-come-out-as-gay-than-christian.html\">christianpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In schools across Northern Ireland, students are finding it more challenging to reveal their Christian faith than their sexual orientation, according to testimony provided during an ongoing inquiry into Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) at Stormont. David Smyth, a representative of the Evangelical Alliance Northern Ireland, told the Education Committee that some young people find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/easier-for-students-to-come-out-as-gay-than-christian-evangelical-group-says\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Easier for students to come out as gay than Christian, Evangelical group says<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6AS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25351,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25350\/revisions\/25351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}