{"id":2390,"date":"2010-10-12T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T17:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2010\/10\/magazine-most-think-sex-offend.php"},"modified":"2010-10-12T17:37:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T17:37:17","slug":"magazine-most-think-sex-offend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2010\/10\/magazine-most-think-sex-offend","title":{"rendered":"Magazine: Most Think Sex Offenders Should Be in Pews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(RNS) Nearly eight in 10 respondents who participated in a Christianity Today International survey said convicted sex offenders should be welcomed in church pews.<br \/>\nThe vast majority of survey participants &#8212; pastors, church leaders and staff members and active Christians &#8212; agreed to the idea so long as offenders who were released from prison were subject to appropriate limitations and kept under supervision.<br \/>\nThe results were published in the September issue of Christianity Today, the evangelical magazine that is the flagship of the Illinois-based publishing company.<br \/>\nA significant majority &#8212; 83 percent &#8212; said a demonstration of repentance is a key factor in shaping views about whether or not convicted offenders should be welcomed by a congregation. Two in three respondents said their views would depend on whether one or more of the victims of the offender attend the church.<br \/>\nAlmost three-quarters of the respondents&#8217; churches do not provide a recovery ministry to people with sexual addictions. Almost a quarter said they &#8220;do nothing,&#8221; while about half provide referrals to other organizations or ministries.<br \/>\nThe survey was based on the responses of 2,864 people drawn from publications and websites of Christianity Today International.<br \/>\n&#8212; Adelle M. Banks<br \/>\n<em>Copyright 2010 Religion News Service. All rights reserved. No part of this transmission may be distributed or reproduced without written permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(RNS) Nearly eight in 10 respondents who participated in a Christianity Today International survey said convicted sex offenders should be welcomed in church pews. The vast majority of survey participants &#8212; pastors, church leaders and staff members and active Christians &#8212; agreed to the idea so long as offenders who were released from prison were&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Magazine: Most Think Sex Offenders Should Be in Pews<\/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\/news\/2010\/10\/magazine-most-think-sex-offend\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Magazine: Most Think Sex Offenders Should Be in Pews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(RNS) Nearly eight in 10 respondents who participated in a Christianity Today International survey said convicted sex offenders should be welcomed in church pews. The vast majority of survey participants &#8212; pastors, church leaders and staff members and active Christians &#8212; agreed to the idea so long as offenders who were released from prison were&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2010\/10\/magazine-most-think-sex-offend\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Beliefnet News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-10-12T17:37:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"aroan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Magazine: Most Think Sex Offenders Should Be in Pews","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\/news\/2010\/10\/magazine-most-think-sex-offend","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Magazine: Most Think Sex Offenders Should Be in Pews","og_description":"(RNS) Nearly eight in 10 respondents who participated in a Christianity Today International survey said convicted sex offenders should be welcomed in church pews. The vast majority of survey participants &#8212; pastors, church leaders and staff members and active Christians &#8212; agreed to the idea so long as offenders who were released from prison were&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2010\/10\/magazine-most-think-sex-offend","og_site_name":"Beliefnet News","article_published_time":"2010-10-12T17:37:17+00:00","author":"aroan","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2010\/10\/magazine-most-think-sex-offend","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2010\/10\/magazine-most-think-sex-offend","name":"Magazine: Most Think Sex Offenders Should Be in Pews","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-10-12T17:37:17+00:00","dateModified":"2010-10-12T17:37:17+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/c6e65092118456e72064bc1332984cfc"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2010\/10\/magazine-most-think-sex-offend#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2010\/10\/magazine-most-think-sex-offend"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2010\/10\/magazine-most-think-sex-offend#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Magazine: Most Think Sex Offenders Should Be in Pews"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/","name":"Beliefnet News","description":"Top Religious News From Around the World","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?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\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/c6e65092118456e72064bc1332984cfc","name":"aroan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/f35\/f3587d75a20cb88f1c76fd277ee82fc5x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/f35\/f3587d75a20cb88f1c76fd277ee82fc5x96.jpg","caption":"aroan"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/author\/aroan"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}