{"id":5948,"date":"2009-12-16T08:54:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T13:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=5948"},"modified":"2009-12-16T08:54:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T13:54:29","slug":"one-step-forward-and-two-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=5948","title":{"rendered":"One step forward and two back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe one day same sex marriage will fall under the same cloud as civil rights. Just as it is unfathomable to believe a black man would not be entitled to the same rights as a white man so one day will it be unfathomable that a gay couple cannot enjoy the same rights as a straight couple to marry and raise a family. These <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/s\/same_sex_marriage\/index.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=a25\">laws<\/a> one day will be looked back on as perverse and unenlightened. You read it here &#8211; maybe not first &#8211; but it will happen. [Note that the major opponents to same sex marriages are besides the religious right, blacks, sort of similar to victim becomes oppressor &#8211; look at Israel and Palestine for further examples of this reversal.]<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/16\/us\/16marriage.html?_r=1&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=a25\">DC<\/a> passed a law allowing same sex marriage &#8211; simultaneously the <a href=\"https:\/\/secure3.convio.net\/hrc\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=637&amp;autologin=true&amp;JServSessionIdr004=9egyj9hup1.app306a\">Catholic church<\/a> has withdrawn all major support for the poor until the law is rescinded. Lovely move and how charitable of them &#8211; using the church&#8217;s purse strings to deny poor people to help keep gays at bay. Very sad Catholic Church &#8211; almost ranks up there with the rampant pedophilia that was routinely ignored by the church at large.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine all the people<br \/>\nSharing all the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe one day same sex marriage will fall under the same cloud as civil rights. Just as it is unfathomable to believe a black man would not be entitled to the same rights as a white man so one day will it be unfathomable that a gay couple cannot enjoy the same rights as a straight couple to marry and raise a family. These laws one day will be looked back on as perverse&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-1xW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5949,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions\/5949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}