{"id":40909,"date":"2012-02-23T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T23:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40909"},"modified":"2012-02-23T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:25:04","slug":"is-marriage-a-civil-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40909","title":{"rendered":"Is Marriage A Civil Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/02\/23\/washington-post-jonathan-capehart-chris-christie-gay-marriage_n_1296321.html\">Jonathan Capehart, a leftist gay columnist at the Washington Post, said to Chris Christie this morning on MSNBC<\/a>: &#8220;You support putting the civil rights of a minority up for a public referendum&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Prager on the radio today: &#8220;So redefining marriage for the first time in the history of humanity to include man-man and woman-woman, this is civil rights for a minority? They [leftists] believe that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Marriage is not a civil right. Marriage is defined by every civilization. They&#8217;ve never allowed man-woman within a family. Would you allow two brothers to marry? Or two sisters? I&#8217;ve never heard them challenged on that question. Is that part of the civil rights? If it is a civil right, then there should be no exclusion. You don&#8217;t have an asterisk on civil rights. You can&#8217;t exclude by number. If it is a civil right, then you should be able to marry two people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has never been a civil right. It is a defined privilege.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to be 35 yo to run for president. You don&#8217;t make social policy on whether or not it is fair for everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Capehart, a leftist gay columnist at the Washington Post, said to Chris Christie this morning on MSNBC: &#8220;You support putting the civil rights of a minority up for a public referendum&#8230;&#8221; Dennis Prager on the radio today: &#8220;So redefining &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40909\">Continue reading <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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-homophobia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}