{"id":25,"date":"2003-08-01T13:40:03","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T17:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/2003\/08\/01\/brief-political-rant\/"},"modified":"2003-08-01T13:40:03","modified_gmt":"2003-08-01T17:40:03","slug":"brief-political-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/2003\/08\/01\/brief-political-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Political Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NYT Letter to the Editor:<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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To the Editor”<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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So now President Bush, who campaigned in 2000 as “a uniter, not a divider,” has labeled as sinners my wonderful gay son and millions of other Americans merely for being who they are (front page, July 31).<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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To me, this divisive and hurtful comment is truly sinful.
JUDITH TULLER
New York, July 31, 2003<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Just when I think I can’t disagree more with the ideology of our leadership, the President holds a press conference and answers a question about his feelings on homosexuals with  <\/SPAN>“Yeah. I am mindful that we’re all sinners.” Good one Mr. Moral Crusader. You know, there are some religions that don’t consider homosexuality and gay marriage a sin. And now republicans are trying to prevent same sex marriages with an amendment to the constitution. Or, excuse me, to “legally to protect the sanctity of marriage.” Uh, one, there already is a law preventing federal recognition of gay marriage, and second, doesn’t this go against the First Amendment? Currently gays can get married, but they are not eligible for federal benefits. Now the Pres wants to prevent gays from even using the term “marriage.” So much for religious freedom.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NYT Letter to the Editor: To the Editor” So now President Bush, who campaigned in 2000 as “a uniter, not a divider,” has labeled as sinners my wonderful gay son and millions of other Americans merely for being who they are (front page, July 31). To me, this divisive and hurtful comment is truly sinful.JUDITH […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}