{"id":357,"date":"2008-02-17T23:54:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T23:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/02\/another-black-church-for-bill.html"},"modified":"2008-02-17T23:54:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T23:54:25","slug":"another-black-church-for-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/02\/another-black-church-for-bill.html","title":{"rendered":"Another Black Church for Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"billclinton.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/billclinton.jpg\" width=\"124\" \/>Last week, God-o-Meter noted that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/02\/bill-ever-go-to-white-churches.html\">Bill Clinton&#8217;s many church visits appear to be almost entirely to African American congregations<\/a>. This morning, it noticed that the ex-prez stopped by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stpaulcols.org\/index.html\">St. Paul AME in Columbus, OH<\/a>, whose web site identifies it as the oldest black church in the city. God-o-Meter is surprised at this pattern, given that Clinton embraced the white evangelical community while he was in the White House. From here on out, GOM will keep an eye on where Clinton spends his Sunday mornings and will make a note of it here.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, God-o-Meter noted that Bill Clinton&#8217;s many church visits appear to be almost entirely to African American congregations. This morning, it noticed that the ex-prez stopped by St. Paul AME in Columbus, OH, whose web site identifies it as the oldest black church in the city. God-o-Meter is surprised at this pattern, given that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hillary-clinton"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Another Black Church for Bill - God-O-Meter<\/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\/godometer\/2008\/02\/another-black-church-for-bill.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Another Black Church for Bill - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last week, God-o-Meter noted that Bill Clinton&#8217;s many church visits appear to be almost entirely to African American congregations. 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