{"id":109,"date":"2003-04-06T19:47:22","date_gmt":"2003-04-06T19:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2003-04-06T19:47:22","modified_gmt":"2003-04-06T19:47:22","slug":"in_response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/in_response\/","title":{"rendered":"In response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I think I&#8217;d better make another post about this here, instead of hijacking my own comment box. because obviously this is something that I feel very strongly about.<br \/>\nDr. D. you made the point that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Looking at marriage, it is a bond recognized by the church that is legal between a man and a woman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I personally don&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s recognized by the church, because (as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/JJ\/archives\/000761.html#000761\" target=\"blank\">this post <\/a>points out), there is supposed to be separation of church and state here&#8230;I would however like for it to be recognized as legal by the &#8216;state&#8217; (or country as the case may be) I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s fair for it to be legal in some areas, but not in others, such as is pointed out in <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;ncid=101&amp;e=1&amp;cid=101&amp;u=\/po\/20030329\/co_po\/texas_appeals_gay_couple_s_divorce\">This case<\/a> (and the final decision on that can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/365gay.com\/NewsContent\/040203txDivorceOff.htm\">HERE<\/a>) IMHO that&#8217;s just not right, that would NEVER have happened if the 2 parties involved had been of the opposite sex!<br \/>\nNow for the &#8216;choosing&#8217; part :smile<br \/>\nI have said this before, although I don&#8217;t think it was here on my blog.<br \/>\nThe only &#8220;choice&#8221; for me, was the one to stop lying to everyone else, including myself, and admit how I really felt. If it was truly a &#8216;choice&#8217; I don&#8217;t think anyone would choose to belong to a group of people who are criticized, looked down upon, discriminated against on a routine basis, and not to mention in some peoples eyes, an &#8216;abomination&#8217;&#8230;I&#8217;m pretty certain no one would ever &#8216;choose&#8217; to be viewed or treated that way&#8230;<br \/>\nbut that&#8217;s just my opinion, I could be wrong :smile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I think I&#8217;d better make another post about this here, instead of hijacking my own comment box. because obviously this is something that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}