{"id":12622,"date":"2012-06-08T16:05:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T20:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=12622"},"modified":"2012-06-08T16:05:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T20:05:40","slug":"im-happy-to-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/06\/im-happy-to-see-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m happy to see it\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  \u2026but I\u2019m still puzzled by the fact that, after 40 years of pro-abort zealotry from the Democratic party, some Democrats are just now leaving the party\u2013because of gay \u201cmarriage\u201d and the HHS mandate. Those things are bad, of course. But it\u2019s still weird to me that somebody could go for decades watching the spectacle of Dems passionately defending sticking scissors in a baby\u2019s brain and then suddenly say, \u201cBut gay marriage? <em>That\u2019s<\/em> crossing the line!\u201d It makes me wonder how such people process information and make moral evaluations. Glad to see they are abandoning any organization committed to these \u201ccore values\u201d. But it doesn\u2019t fill me with <em>too<\/em> much confidence that they are necessarily going to bring moral wisdom to whatever political home they wind up in (assuming they wind up anywhere, since a lot of us are politically homeless and alienated from the worthless circus of American politics). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/06\/im-happy-to-see-it.html\">(Mark Shea)<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had similar thoughts when I read some of these stories from those who left the Democrat Party.  Considering all the moral straws that have been piling on the proverbial&#8217;s camel back you think this must have been one strong mutant camel with a backbone made of titanium. But with Mr. Shea I am happy to see them realize the truth and pray more do the same, especially as an ex-Democrat myself and one who also had a high-resistance to reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026but I\u2019m still puzzled by the fact that, after 40 years of pro-abort zealotry from the Democratic party, some Democrats are just now leaving the party\u2013because of gay \u201cmarriage\u201d and&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-12622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12624,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622\/revisions\/12624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}