{"id":1186,"date":"2007-07-27T14:02:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/07\/lindsays-pastor-problem.html"},"modified":"2007-07-27T14:02:22","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T14:02:22","slug":"lindsays-pastor-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/07\/lindsays-pastor-problem.html","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay&#8217;s Pastor Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/lindseymugshotpicic.jpg\" align=\"right\">It&#8217;s difficult to tell who is more self-indulgently indifferent to Lindsay Lohan&#8217;s problem: the tabloids that denigrate her as a pop tart while devoting their front pages or kindly pastors who publicly urge her to turn to Jesus&#8211;strike that, turn to them, so they can lead her to Jesus. This week Lohan&#8217;s been offered healing help by not one but two self-appointed saviors&#8211;a Christian prison minister named Marty Angelo and Mark Dice, the man who credits himself with <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/news\/suicide-is-painless\/lindsay-lohan-might-commit-suicide-says-expert-281905.php\" target=\"_blank\">influencing Paris Hilton&#8217;s conversion<\/a> (he held a &#8220;Pray for Paris Party&#8221; at the Beverly Hills Hilton while Paris was in jail). Angelo is made of sterner stuff: He&#8217;s offering to serve Lohan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/07\/send-lindsey-to-jail.html\" target=\"_blank\">presumed prison sentence<\/a> in her stead if she submits to a faith-based treatment program.<br \/>\nNot much has been revealed specifically about Lohan&#8217;s treatment at Promises, a plush rehab center in Malibu, but if the Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/270216\/lindsay_lohans_choice_for_rehab_promises.html\" target=\"_blank\">has it right<\/a> that it follows A.A.&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcoholics-anonymous.org\/en_services_for_members.cfm?PageID=98&amp;SubPage=117\" target=\"_blank\">12-Step tradition<\/a>, Lohan has already been advised to seek the help of a higher power, and having been raised a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adherents.com\/largecom\/fam_catholic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Roman Catholic<\/a>, she&#8217;s probably got one all picked out. Lohan <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/07\/rehab-reading.html\" target=\"_blank\">recently said<\/a> her favorite reading material these days is Machiavelli. With the tabs on one side and pontificating preachers on the other, a girl could do worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s difficult to tell who is more self-indulgently indifferent to Lindsay Lohan&#8217;s problem: the tabloids that denigrate her as a pop tart while devoting their front pages or kindly pastors who publicly urge her to turn to Jesus&#8211;strike that, turn to them, so they can lead her to Jesus. 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