{"id":6869,"date":"2004-05-18T18:10:23","date_gmt":"2004-05-18T23:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/05\/18\/massachusetts-justice-of-the-peace-resigns-rather-than-offer-same-sex-marriage\/"},"modified":"2004-05-18T18:10:23","modified_gmt":"2004-05-18T23:10:23","slug":"massachusetts-justice-of-the-peace-resigns-rather-than-offer-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/05\/massachusetts-justice-of-the-peace-resigns-rather-than-offer-same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Justice of the Peace Resigns Rather Than Offer Same Sex Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">Linda Gray Kelly, a Justice of the Peace in Massaschusetts who resigned her position as a JP rather than marry same sex couples. I have to follow the law of God and my Catholic faith, Gray said in her letter, if my memory serves.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/davidmorrison.typepad.com\/sed_contra\/2004\/05\/massachusetts_j.html\" target=\"_blank\">Via Sed Contra<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Bravo to Linda Gray Kelly.  We need more like her that stand up for their faith.  It is just ridiculous that they never put in a conscience clause in the law there. Tolerance is now a one way street where those with religious convictions are not allowed to enter.   Instead we loose the very type of people with true integrity that our government so desperately needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Peter Sean Bradley of <a href=\"http:\/\/peterseanesq.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lex Communis<\/a> also has <a href=\"http:\/\/peterseanesq.blogspot.com\/2004_05_01_peterseanesq_archive.html#108490435674727005\" target=\"_blank\">some thoughts<\/a> on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Gray Kelly, a Justice of the Peace in Massaschusetts who resigned her position as a JP rather than marry same sex couples. I have to follow the law of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869","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=6869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}