{"id":7201,"date":"2004-03-17T13:24:54","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T18:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/03\/17\/cross-out-the-cross\/"},"modified":"2004-03-17T13:24:54","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T18:24:54","slug":"cross-out-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/03\/cross-out-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross out the cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phil Lawler of Catholic World Report posts<\/a> on this story:<\/p>\n

AUGUSTA – Crosses are out, shamrocks are in at the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Augusta.<\/p>\n

Organizers of the Irish-American Heritage Society’s parade have refused to allow a youth group from a local religious community to carry crosses in today’s parade.\n<\/p>\n

‘Our position is we cannot be a platform for anyone’s views, standpoints on politics, religion, race; it doesn’t matter,” parade Chairman Earl Lovering said. ”We’re basically celebrating St. Patrick’s in the way the holiday has become to be known.”<\/p>\n

Bill Conkright, who runs the Alleluia Community’s youth ministry, said he couldn’t believe his ears when he heard it, so he called the society’s president, Sean Burke.
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What I thought was funny was that the “Irish-American Heritage Society” said no to this. Do they ponder what the word heritage means” “Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.” It definitely does not mean “has become to be known”, that is the opposite of heritage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phil Lawler of Catholic World Report posts on this story: AUGUSTA – Crosses are out, shamrocks are in at the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Augusta. Organizers of the Irish-American…<\/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-7201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201","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=7201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}