{"id":1023,"date":"2021-01-22T13:51:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T12:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2021-01-22T13:51:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T12:51:47","slug":"my-sons-being-gay-is-a-spiritual-challenge-okupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/2021\/01\/22\/my-sons-being-gay-is-a-spiritual-challenge-okupe\/","title":{"rendered":"My Son\u2019s Being Gay Is A Spiritual Challenge \u2013 Doyin Okupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>My Son\u2019s Being Gay Is A Spiritual Challenge \u2013 Doyin Okupe<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A former Presidential Spokesman, Dr. Doyin Okupe, says his son\u2019s decision to openly declare himself a homosexual is a spiritual challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Okupe said this in a series of tweets while reacting to a viral photo showing his son, Bolu, wearing rainbow boxers with the caption, Yes, I am gay\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Okupe, who served under former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, said as an evangelist, he would never accept homosexuality as it is at variance with Christian values.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said he was hopeful that God would intervene, adding that he had been aware of his son\u2019s sexual orientation for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>The former Presidential aide tweeted, \u201cI have been aware of this his new orientation for a while now. He knows that as a Christian and a witness for Christ (an evangelist), I am vehemently opposed to homosexuality as it runs contrary to the avowed precepts of my Christian faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I look beyond the surface or the physical. Here I see a major spiritual challenge ahead but I know as my God liveth, this whole saga will end up in praise to the Almighty Jehovah who I serve day and night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor it is written: Behold, the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot save, neither is His ear dead that he cannot hear. Isaiah 59 vs 1.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Son\u2019s Being Gay Is A Spiritual Challenge \u2013 Doyin Okupe A former Presidential Spokesman, Dr. Doyin Okupe, says his son\u2019s decision to openly declare himself a homosexual is a spiritual challenge. Okupe said this in a series of tweets while reacting to a viral photo showing his son, Bolu, wearing rainbow boxers with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[398,399,400],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Doyin-Okupe.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pci3ty-gv","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}