{"id":10988,"date":"2015-09-30T16:17:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=10988"},"modified":"2015-09-30T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:17:10","slug":"im-disappointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=10988","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m disappointed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as you know, I very seldom talk about religion unless is it being used as a bludgeon to impose religious views on people who are non believers&#8230;but, something the Pope did last week disappointed the hell out of me&#8230;he made the point to meet with the homophobic country clerk from Kentucky who refused to do her job and issue same sex marriage licences to gay couples&#8230;.what does the Pope not understand about discrimination and the separation of church and state here in the US? It is not &#8216;religious freedom&#8221; to deny other people their rights just because you don&#8217;t like the idea that gays can get married&#8230;and by meeting with her, the Pope gave sanction to this unlawful behavior&#8230;it was a terrible mis-judgement on his part, to elevate a hater to the status that she gets a private meeting with the Pope&#8230;she who is on her 4th marriage&#8230;it just shows how we need to end the hegemony of religion in this country an put it back in the churches where it belongs&#8230;.geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as you know, I very seldom talk about religion unless is it being used as a bludgeon to impose religious views on people who are non believers&#8230;but, something the Pope did last week disappointed the hell out of me&#8230;he made the point to meet with the homophobic country clerk from Kentucky who refused to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=10988\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m disappointed&#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":[1283,1282],"class_list":["post-10988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-kim-davis","tag-pope-francis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988","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=10988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10989,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions\/10989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}