{"id":2554,"date":"2010-05-09T02:36:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T10:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2010\/05\/09\/mariage-etc\/"},"modified":"2010-05-09T02:36:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T10:36:51","slug":"mariage-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2010\/05\/09\/mariage-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariage Etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m doing a bit of cleaning out of those entries that I started but never finished&#8230;  Here is one titled Marriage etc.  As I remember it was a response to a Facebook discussion, or something along those lines.  The file date on it is December 21, 2008.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Interesting idea to think about: The Salvation Army (a church) is in favor of not having Christmas be recognized as a federal holiday.  Why? Because having the government recognize such a special day diminishes the experience.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like the fact that some religions can and have chosen to recognize gay marriages, but because of other church&#8217;s beliefs they are unable to bestow the same legal rights on gay couples as they do on straight couples.  This is clearly an infringement of freedom of speech\/religion.  So by banning gay marriage you are actually infringing on freedom of religion.<\/p>\n<p>I know ministers who will not sign marriage licenses for this very reason.<\/p>\n<p>Jared, I&#8217;m reminded of the scene in Jurassic Park (the book, not the movie) where they&#8217;re amazed that they discover the dinosaurs are breeding because the computer system they&#8217;ve set up to track them only checks for the preset number that it expects to there to be.  They&#8217;re only looking to make sure they&#8217;re not losing dinosaur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m doing a bit of cleaning out of those entries that I started but never finished&#8230; Here is one titled Marriage etc. As I remember it was a response to a Facebook discussion, or something along those lines. The file date on it is December 21, 2008. Interesting idea to think about: The Salvation Army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}