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“average JoeOhio Tour” cont:<\/strong> \u00a0 In Massilon, Ohio, I talked at St. Mary’s Church. \u00a0 I said I believed in a “Consistent Life Ethic,” which means I’m against abortion, poverty, pollution and anything else that can end life prematurely. \u00a0 We then did a whilste-stop event in downtown Massilon. \u00a0 Reporter Joseph Gartrell, from nearby Canton’s newspaper, had a cast on his arm. \u00a0 He told me he’d broken his wrist recently and just one trip to the osteopath to have the cast put on cost a whopping (in his estimation, and mine): $900. Healthcare costs in America are just getting nuts… \u00a0 We then headed on to Alliance, Ohio, where I talked in a downtown Four Square Church called: The Mountain of the Lord. \u00a0I said we as a society have become so unplugged from the reality of, well, sin<\/em>. \u00a0 I said to the congregation that several years ago I’d given a talk to a graduate level theology class at Bluffton University. \u00a0 During the talk, I said that if one is standing on a street corner with their spouse, only the most morally decensitized \u00a0individual would intently stare at a scantily clad person walking up the street for more than, say, a few seconds. \u00a0 (Liz would slap me if it were longer.) \u00a0 Yet we think nothing of sitting down with our spouse for hours <\/em>staring at scantily clad men and women through a TV screen, during prime time. \u00a0 And the difference is? \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> Rev. Philip Shepard and his wife couldn’t have been more welcoming. \u00a0 What’s more, Rev. Shepard told me he’d be participating in a oval track race that weekend called: “Faster Pastor.” \u00a0 And if that wasn’t enough, the beginning of his e-mail address is: revumup@ — and I don’t think he’s just talking race cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“average JoeOhio Tour” cont: \u00a0 In Massilon, Ohio, I talked at St. Mary’s Church. \u00a0 I said I believed in a “Consistent Life Ethic,” which means I’m against abortion, poverty, pollution and anything else that can end life prematurely. \u00a0 …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}