{"id":10405,"date":"2015-06-02T15:13:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T19:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=10405"},"modified":"2015-06-02T15:15:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T19:15:50","slug":"special-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=10405","title":{"rendered":"Special rights&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I have just about had enough of the right&#8217;s railing against the &#8220;special rights&#8221; that they think gays will get if they get the same rights as the rest of us here in the US&#8230;I have yet to have anyone that supports discrimination against gays explain to me what these &#8220;special rights&#8221; are but there was a huge dose of irony that has come out of North Carolina over the past week dealing with the &#8220;special rights&#8221; that they are close to granting magistrates there that have &#8220;deeply held religious beliefs&#8221;&#8230;.yeah, I put that in quotes because that phrase means they have deeply held bigoted beliefs that they think they should be able to act on&#8230;even if it is their job to issue marriage licenses. This new law, that was vetoed by the governor but looks like will be upheld with a veto override, grants these magistrates the &#8216;special right&#8221; to refuse to issue any couple a marriage license if they just shout &#8220;deeply held religious belief&#8221; before they discriminate&#8230;and, while the purpose of the bill is to allow discrimination against gays, it&#8217;s scope allows any magistrate to not give a marriage license to anyone they don&#8217;t like&#8230;interracial couple, check&#8230;.Mexican couple, check, couple from a family they don&#8217;t like, check&#8230;.how can we just saw these stupid states off and let them float away? These guys hate &#8220;special rights&#8221; unless it is for them and no one else&#8230;..geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I have just about had enough of the right&#8217;s railing against the &#8220;special rights&#8221; that they think gays will get if they get the same rights as the rest of us here in the US&#8230;I have yet to have anyone that supports discrimination against gays explain to me what these &#8220;special rights&#8221; are but there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=10405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Special rights&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1028,226,863],"class_list":["post-10405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-discrimination","tag-gays","tag-north-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10408,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions\/10408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}