{"id":71,"date":"2005-04-14T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T14:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/04\/14\/welcome-to-southern-nebraska-if-youre-m"},"modified":"2005-04-14T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T14:22:40","slug":"welcome-to-southern-nebraska-if-youre-male-white-and-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/04\/14\/welcome-to-southern-nebraska-if-youre-male-white-and-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Southern Nebraska (if you&#8217;re male, white and straight)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1937'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Not that I was ever planning on going to Nebraska&#8230;but an article in today&#8217;s Boston Globe comparing the Catholic church in Boston to the Catholic church Lincoln, Nebraska was pretty scary. I always thought of the Boston church as being ultra-conservative. I mean, they were the biggest protestors in the gay marriage debates and stick their nose into all local politics. But things are apparently much worse in Nebraska! <\/P><br \/>\n<P>While much of the country is hoping the new Pope is more open-minded than previous ones, southern Nebraskans think we need somebody more conservative and more traditional. People are quoted as saying that the church shouldn&#8217;t have to adapt to the times, but the times should adapt to the church. Similar to Massachusetts&#8217; Governor Romney&#8217;s comments during the gay marriage debate, they believe that we should follow 2,000 years or recorded history&#8230;on everything.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>One family moved from Washington state to Nebraska because their priest in Washington suggested that the congregation should welcome all people into the&nbsp;church&nbsp;&#8211; whether male or female, straight or gay, or black or white. So that family moved to Nebraska to join a more like-minded group of brain-washed people (I mean, a more like-minded congregation).<\/P><br \/>\n<P>My favorite part of the article was this photograph* of Nebraska showing one of the churches. It looks more like an early Las Vegas strip motel (I love the flashy sign). HMMMM &#8211; apparently,&nbsp;this is&nbsp;what churches looked like 2,000 years ago.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/snarl\/Nebraska.jpg\" height=\"225\" width=\"375\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Keep the faith, everybody!<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>*Picture obtained from the Boston Globe on-line, Staff Photo\/Dina Rudick<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that I was ever planning on going to Nebraska&#8230;but an article in today&#8217;s Boston Globe comparing the Catholic church in Boston to the Catholic church Lincoln, Nebraska was pretty scary. I always thought of the Boston church as being ultra-conservative. I mean, they were the biggest protestors in the gay marriage debates and stick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}