{"id":376,"date":"2011-03-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/february-flashback-southern-gay-parents-facebooking-nun-amish-bernie-madoff.html"},"modified":"2011-03-02T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T08:00:00","slug":"february-flashback-southern-gay-parents-facebooking-nun-amish-bernie-madoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/february-flashback-southern-gay-parents-facebooking-nun-amish-bernie-madoff.html","title":{"rendered":"February Flashback: Southern Gay Parents, Facebooking Nun &amp; Amish Bernie Madoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belief Beat usually covers hard news or stories that make multiple headlines, but now that it&#8217;s March, let&#8217;s look back at a few interesting February features you may have missed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/07\/gay-par\/\">Gay Parenting Takes Off In Bible Belt <\/a>(CNN Belief&nbsp; Blog)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/spanish-nun-leaves-convent-over-facebook\">Spanish Nun Leaves Convent Over Facebook <\/a>(National Catholic Reporter)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/02\/16\/AR2011021607415.html?nav=rss_religion\">In an Amish Village, the SEC Charges Financial Fraud <\/a>(Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(The last one isn&#8217;t really a&nbsp;twist, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/11\/faith-based-charities---and-cons---benefit-from-holiday-season_comments.html\">given that affinity fraud commonly preys on religious communities and&nbsp;people of faith<\/a>, but we tend to&nbsp;have a more&nbsp;romanticized view of the Amish.)<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments&nbsp;section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belief Beat usually covers hard news or stories that make multiple headlines, but now that it&#8217;s March, let&#8217;s look back at a few interesting February features you may have missed: Gay Parenting Takes Off In Bible Belt (CNN Belief&nbsp; Blog) Spanish Nun Leaves Convent Over Facebook (National Catholic Reporter) In an Amish Village, the SEC&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>February Flashback: Southern Gay Parents, Facebooking Nun &amp; Amish Bernie Madoff - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/february-flashback-southern-gay-parents-facebooking-nun-amish-bernie-madoff.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"February Flashback: Southern Gay Parents, Facebooking Nun &amp; Amish Bernie Madoff - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Belief Beat usually covers hard news or stories that make multiple headlines, but now that it&#8217;s March, let&#8217;s look back at a few interesting February features you may have missed: Gay Parenting Takes Off In Bible Belt (CNN Belief&nbsp; Blog) Spanish Nun Leaves Convent Over Facebook (National Catholic Reporter) In an Amish Village, the SEC&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/february-flashback-southern-gay-parents-facebooking-nun-amish-bernie-madoff.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-03-02T08:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nicole Neroulias\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"February Flashback: Southern Gay Parents, Facebooking Nun &amp; Amish Bernie Madoff - Belief Beat","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/february-flashback-southern-gay-parents-facebooking-nun-amish-bernie-madoff.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"February Flashback: Southern Gay Parents, Facebooking Nun &amp; Amish Bernie Madoff - Belief Beat","og_description":"Belief Beat usually covers hard news or stories that make multiple headlines, but now that it&#8217;s March, let&#8217;s look back at a few interesting February features you may have missed: Gay Parenting Takes Off In Bible Belt (CNN Belief&nbsp; Blog) Spanish Nun Leaves Convent Over Facebook (National Catholic Reporter) In an Amish Village, the SEC&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/february-flashback-southern-gay-parents-facebooking-nun-amish-bernie-madoff.html","og_site_name":"Belief Beat","article_published_time":"2011-03-02T08:00:00+00:00","author":"Nicole Neroulias","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/february-flashback-southern-gay-parents-facebooking-nun-amish-bernie-madoff.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/february-flashback-southern-gay-parents-facebooking-nun-amish-bernie-madoff.html","name":"February Flashback: Southern Gay Parents, Facebooking Nun &amp; Amish Bernie Madoff - Belief Beat","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-03-02T08:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2011-03-02T08:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/#\/schema\/person\/42dac2ebd149a02dfe91f0f93e36761b"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/february-flashback-southern-gay-parents-facebooking-nun-amish-bernie-madoff.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/february-flashback-southern-gay-parents-facebooking-nun-amish-bernie-madoff.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/february-flashback-southern-gay-parents-facebooking-nun-amish-bernie-madoff.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"February Flashback: Southern Gay Parents, Facebooking Nun &amp; Amish Bernie Madoff"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/","name":"Belief Beat","description":"BeliefBeat - Nicole Neroulias","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/#\/schema\/person\/42dac2ebd149a02dfe91f0f93e36761b","name":"Nicole Neroulias","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/caf\/caf1ad99f5fc2a063b8e935cf82f65fdx96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/caf\/caf1ad99f5fc2a063b8e935cf82f65fdx96.jpg","caption":"Nicole Neroulias"},"description":"Nicole Neroulias is a correspondent for Religion News Service, a secular news and photo service devoted to unbiased coverage of religion and ethics. A graduate of Cornell University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she has previously written for The New York Times and other media outlets. She and her family live in Seattle.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/author\/nneroulias"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}