{"id":6571,"date":"2009-10-04T21:30:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/10\/04\/bachmann-and-punk-christians\/"},"modified":"2009-10-04T21:30:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T21:30:15","slug":"bachmann-and-punk-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/04\/bachmann-and-punk-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann and Punk Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Rep. Michele Bachmann will be headlining a fundraiser in November for controversial ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide (YCRBYCH).<\/p>\n<p>Based in Annandale, Minn., the group has made a name for itself as an anti-drug Christian punk rock band that organizes motivational student assemblies to bring Christ to public schools. But over the last several years, parents and school administrators have complained that the ministry misrepresents itself, claiming that the group is not transparent about its Christian mission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/45902\/michele-bachmann-to-fundraise-for-controversial-ministry\">source<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThis is actually a fairly common problem in public schools.  Groups represent themselves one way and end up spreading the word of jeebus once they get all the kids together in the auditorium.  One motivational speaker that I know of has a totally christian mission theme, but promises to do no religious stuff whatsoever in the school. And he keeps his promise.  but he also publicizes his web site heavily and guess what&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Why does this story remind me of <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/05\/on_the_seventh_day_god_rocked.php\">this movie?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Michele Bachmann will be headlining a fundraiser in November for controversial ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide (YCRBYCH). Based in Annandale, Minn., the group has made a name for itself as an anti-drug Christian punk rock band that organizes motivational student assemblies to bring Christ to public schools. But over the last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/04\/bachmann-and-punk-christians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bachmann and Punk Christians<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3677,2486,306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1HZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}