{"id":5994,"date":"2005-07-13T13:50:58","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T18:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/07\/13\/wheres-the-aclu-when-you-need-them\/"},"modified":"2005-07-13T13:50:58","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T18:50:58","slug":"wheres-the-aclu-when-you-need-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/07\/wheres-the-aclu-when-you-need-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#039;s the ACLU when you need them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">Hub voters would be asked if the Archdiocese of Boston &#8220;has failed&#8221; in its handling of church closings in neighborhoods under a nonbinding ballot question to be proposed by a trio of city councilors today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the past we&#8217;ve had nothing but failure and breakdown in communication and in the future we need to have better communication,&#8221; said Brighton City Councilor Jerry P. McDermott, the lead sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>The measure, which will be introduced at today&#8217;s City Council meeting, will be on the Nov. 8 ballot if it passes. Also sponsoring it are South Boston City Councilor James M. Kelly and North End Councilor Paul J. Scapicchio.<\/p>\n<p>Councilors said the archdiocese has gone ahead with closings without thought for the city&#8217;s most vulnerable citizens, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, who use church-based food pantries and 12-step programs.<\/p>\n<p>An Archdiocese spokesman could not be reached for comment yesterday. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/localRegional\/view.bg?articleid=93585\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Still waiting for separation of church and state activists to get riled up about this one &#8211; definitely not a breath holding moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hub voters would be asked if the Archdiocese of Boston &#8220;has failed&#8221; in its handling of church closings in neighborhoods under a nonbinding ballot question to be proposed by a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}