{"id":141943,"date":"2025-01-28T13:47:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=141943"},"modified":"2025-01-28T13:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:47:46","slug":"tx-pastor-condemning-congregation-that-is-supporting-death-penalty-for-man-who-killed-reverend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=141943","title":{"rendered":"TX Pastor Condemning Congregation That Is Supporting Death Penalty for Man Who Killed Reverend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/church-murdered-pastor-supports-execution-120538768.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIx9qECTfedqSoUsZULvmGhM5zM48RHp890P_oDzXi_3L3UhJMxSaHbplowbVqtINSWOooryp9ycMitvNOpF1Cmly_px54kZtyOEollXSIkgcG2L3kaFlUxMr7YsixtwBrt92ZWEo5iRqhK2DEZSykbRm1GN1_0Pl2cGJS7_ahTQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yahoo! News<\/a>: &#8220;Ecclesiastical lines have been drawn over the fate of Texas&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/politics\/state\/2025\/01\/23\/texas-death-row-inmate-steven-nelson-execution-wife-noa-dubois-death-penalty\/77709874007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">death row inmate Steven Nelson<\/a>, with one church saying his sentence for killing its pastor is justified and another clergyman saying the state violates a foundational principle of Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, just west of Dallas. He&#8217;s scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Rev. Jeff Hood,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/comforting-condemned-inside-execution-chamber-110200287.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a death row spiritual adviser and anti-death penalty activist<\/a>&nbsp;based in Arkansas, has spearheaded a clemency campaign for Nelson, holding a protest at NorthPointe&#8217;s sister church First Baptist Arlington, reaching out to news media for attention on the case and trying to open a dialogue with First Baptist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;What is at stake is the very faith that they proclaim, that I proclaim,&#8221; Hood told USA TODAY in an interview. &#8220;If First Baptist Arlington is able to turn Jesus into an executioner, then they are able to rewrite the faith however they choose.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo! News: &#8220;Ecclesiastical lines have been drawn over the fate of Texas&nbsp;death row inmate Steven Nelson, with one church saying his sentence for killing its pastor is justified and another clergyman saying the state violates a foundational principle of Christianity. Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson at NorthPointe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141944,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141943\/revisions\/141944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}