{"id":13046,"date":"2012-09-12T18:21:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T22:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=13046"},"modified":"2012-09-12T18:21:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T22:21:12","slug":"headline-news-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/09\/headline-news-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Headline News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has a story &#8220;College Course Lumps Homosexuality, Rape, Murder&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>GetReligion posts on the one-sided nature of the story and asks &#8220;Is this a smear job or simply bad journalism?&#8221; Well as a Catholic I say &#8220;both\/and&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/franciscan-universitys-sociology-course-description-comes-under-fire?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NCRegisterDailyBlog+National+Catholic+Register#When:2012-09-12\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Drake of the National Catholic Register has a solid piece<\/a> on the story which includes the fact that the complaining group didn&#8217;t even contact the University first to complain before taking the story to the press along with other relevant details.<\/p>\n<p>This type of conflation to portray things in the worst light possible is nothing new for opponents of the Church. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2010\/07\/unbelievable\/\" target=\"_blank\">Not that long ago when the revised norms<\/a> (Normae de Gravioribus Delictis) issued by the Holy See included women&#8217;s ordination. Headlines shouted how the Church viewed women&#8217;s ordination as the same thing as child sexual abuse. \u00a0Funny how journalist can&#8217;t make the simplest distinctions when it doesn&#8217;t fit their agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has a story &#8220;College Course Lumps Homosexuality, Rape, Murder&#8221; GetReligion posts on the one-sided nature of the story and asks &#8220;Is this a smear job or simply bad journalism?&#8221;&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-13046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046","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=13046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13047,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046\/revisions\/13047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}