{"id":64506,"date":"2015-02-26T22:21:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T06:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64506"},"modified":"2015-02-27T07:40:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T15:40:52","slug":"catholics-grow-a-backbone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64506","title":{"rendered":"Catholics Grow A Backbone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to see Catholics standing up for their group interest and staying true to their Church teachings instead of compromising in the name of multiculturalism and civility.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/27\/us\/archbishop-cordileone-of-san-francisco-defends-changes.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=photo-spot-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news&#038;_r=0\">NYTimes.com<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 It is the issue that is stirring San Francisco: The archbishop has specified that teachers at four Bay Area Catholic high schools cannot publicly challenge the church\u2019s teachings that homosexual acts are \u201ccontrary to natural law,\u201d that contraception is \u201cintrinsically evil\u201d and that embryonic stem cell research is \u201ca crime.\u201d He also wants to designate teachers as part of the \u201cministry,\u201d which could, under a 2012 Supreme Court ruling, strip them of protection under federal anti-discrimination laws.<\/p>\n<p>In this city that helped give birth to the gay rights movement, the backlash has been fierce. A top concern is that gay teachers could be fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to see Catholics standing up for their group interest and staying true to their Church teachings instead of compromising in the name of multiculturalism and civility. NYTimes.com: SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 It is the issue that is stirring San &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64506\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[29694,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholics","category-homophobia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64506","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=64506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64508,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64506\/revisions\/64508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}