{"id":396733,"date":"2017-08-30T22:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T02:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=396733"},"modified":"2017-08-30T22:44:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T02:44:55","slug":"anti-gay-harlem-pastor-defies-city-again-by-adding-tv-to-controversial-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=396733","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Gay Harlem Pastor Defies City Again by Adding TV to Controversial Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170830\/central-harlem\/atlah-church-ministries-landmarks-preservation-commission-homophobia\">This post<\/a> was originally published on <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170830\/central-harlem\/atlah-church-ministries-landmarks-preservation-commission-homophobia\">this site<\/a>.   <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170830\/central-harlem\/atlah-church-ministries-landmarks-preservation-commission-homophobia\">Click here<\/a> to read the post and view byline and photo credits etc.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170830\/central-harlem\/atlah-church-ministries-landmarks-preservation-commission-homophobia#slideshow\" class=\"js-slideshow\" title=\"Atlah Worldwide Ministries\"><\/a> <img class=\"vital\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/assets.dnainfo.comextralarge-5f19d2659cb711f788761cef9542329acf283e2e.jpg\" alt=\" The controversial church installed a new outdoor television where they broadcast sermons of a pastor who routinely refers to gay people as sodomites. \" \/> Atlah Worldwide Ministries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170830\/central-harlem\/atlah-church-ministries-landmarks-preservation-commission-homophobia#\" class=\"view-more pull-left dropup hide\" title=\" The controversial church installed a new outdoor television where they broadcast sermons of a pastor who routinely refers to gay people as sodomites. \">View Full Caption<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>HARLEM&nbsp;&mdash; The homophobic pastor of a landmarked Harlem church doesn&#8217;t believe in asking for permission or begging for forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/places\/atlah-worldwide-chruch\">Atlah Worldwide Ministries<\/a>&#8216; top holy man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/people\/james-david-manning\">James David Manning<\/a>, recently attached a large television to a sign&nbsp;that regularly featured&nbsp;controversial&nbsp;statements outside his landmarked West 123rd Street church, despite knowing it violated city laws.<\/p>\n<p>Manning owes the city $23,000 for previous landmark violations related to building alternations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20150306\/central-harlem\/landmark-violations-could-force-atlah-worldwide-church-take-down-sign\">including the notorious sign that often espouses racist and homophobic messages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said he didn&#8217;t ask for permission to install the TV because he thought the city<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was originally published on this site. Click here to read the post and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":396734,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124717284],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396733"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396737,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396733\/revisions\/396737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/396734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}