{"id":24,"date":"2004-06-12T19:01:17","date_gmt":"2004-06-12T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nule.org\/wp\/?p=24"},"modified":"2004-06-12T19:01:17","modified_gmt":"2004-06-12T23:01:17","slug":"falling-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nule.org\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Falling Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t let <a href=\"http:\/\/everonward.org\/mt\/\">Jeff<\/a> get ahead of me in blogging.  So I have nothing to say, but I&#8217;m going to go ahead and say something anyway.<\/p>\n<p>There is a post under construction for this section that is a long diatribe about the Catholic Church, which as human organizations go, annoys me more than most.  Hopefully it&#8217;s fairly well reasoned.  They&#8217;ve been doing two things recently that they&#8217;ve done to annoy me (which I&#8217;ll go in to more detail on when I finish that other post) but quickly they&#8217;ve gotten involved with politics, which violates the church\/state separation (and should preclude them from any sort of tax-exempt status) and are pushing hard against <a href=\"http:\/\/hrc.org\/\">same sex marriages<\/a>.  It&#8217;s bad enough that <a href=\"http:\/\/us.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/02\/24\/elec04.prez.bush.marriage\/\">Bush is trying to write discrimination into our constitution<\/a> &#8211; the first time a constitutional amendment has been used not to grant freedoms to people, but instead take away the hopes of equal treatment.  I contribute heavily to the organization that I linked to above &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/hrc.org\/\">Human Rights Compaign<\/a>.  They seem to be the group most visible in fighting the 39 states trying to write discriminatory laws at the moment and obviously the federal efforts as well.  I&#8217;d encourage you to visit their site and since you are obviously a smart person and agree with this position, to consider aiding their cause.<\/p>\n<p>On a completely unrelated note, I also uploaded some more photos to the <a href=\"http:\/\/nule.org\/gallery\/NewStuff\">New Photos<\/a> section of my gallery and moved some old ones around.  That is all.  Have a nice day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t let Jeff get ahead of me in blogging. So I have nothing to say, but I&#8217;m going to go ahead and say something anyway. There is a post under construction for this section that is a long diatribe about the Catholic Church, which as human organizations go, annoys me more than most. Hopefully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}