{"id":1919726,"date":"2023-04-26T23:41:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T03:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-dem-rep-steals-bibles-from-members-lounge-shes-an-ordained-minister\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T23:42:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T03:42:14","slug":"arizona-dem-rep-steals-bibles-from-members-lounge-shes-an-ordained-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-dem-rep-steals-bibles-from-members-lounge-shes-an-ordained-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Dem Rep Steals Bibles From Members\u2019 Lounge. She\u2019s An Ordained Minister."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-dem-rep-steals-bibles-from-members-lounge-shes-an-ordained-minister%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1919726&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Arizona Democrat State Representative Caught Stealing Bibles<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a shocking incident, Democrat state representative Stephanie Stahl Hamilton was caught on camera stealing Bibles from the state house lounge. What&#8217;s even more surprising is that she is an ordained Presbyterian minister who attended Princeton Theological Seminary. The Bibles were found buried in the lounge furniture and in the community refrigerator.<\/p>\n<h3>A Playful Prank or a Blurred Line?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stahl Hamilton defended her actions by calling it a &#8220;playful commentary on the separation of church and state.&#8221; She claimed that she was frustrated with the Christian Bible being used as a weapon in the state house. However, her actions were deemed nonsensical and offensive by Republican Speaker Pro Tempore Travis Grantham.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stahl Hamilton&#8217;s statement: &#8220;I am a Presbyterian minister so I obviously don\u2019t have a problem with the Bible.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Grantham&#8217;s response: &#8220;I don\u2019t quite understand the issue of having a Bible available for members to read.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stahl Hamilton later apologized for her actions, stating that she holds Scripture dear to her heart and that her intent was never to be destructive or offensive. However, Grantham still found her actions uncomfortable and offensive to those who cherish the Bible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">What do you think about this incident? Was it a harmless prank or a blurred line between church and state?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Arizona Democrat state representative was caught on video stealing Bibles from the state house lounge\u2014 and she\u2019s an ordained Presbyterian minister. The Bibles plucked by Democrat state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton \u2014 who attended Princeton Theological Seminary \u2014wound up in two places: buried in the members-only lounge furniture and in the community refrigerator. \u201cWhen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1919727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4472,25241,6244,8142,4985,8521,25240,7129,8281,11928],"class_list":["post-1919726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-arizona","tag-bibles","tag-dem","tag-lounge","tag-members","tag-minister","tag-ordained","tag-rep","tag-shes","tag-steals"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1919727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}