{"id":3962,"date":"2007-05-03T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T22:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/05\/03\/i-am-a\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T17:39:42","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T22:39:42","slug":"i-am-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/05\/i-am-a\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">Governor McGreevy announces he is now an &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&#038;ct=us\/82-0&#038;fd=R&#038;url=http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/jjournal\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-2\/117817297915860.xml&#038;coll=3&#038;cid=1115959017&#038;ei=u4s5RuPpCYqw0QHEh928Aw\" target=\"_blank\">Episcopalian American<\/a>&quot;, though some consider it redundant from his announcement two years ago that  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/08\/12\/mcgreevey.transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;I am a gay American.<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">So good luck to him as he enters an Episcopalian seminary. He really will really stick out there, you know being a Governor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Carl Olson <a href=\"http:\/\/insightscoop.typepad.com\/2004\/2007\/05\/former_catholic.html\" target=\"_blank\">opines<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">As strange as it might sound, I&#8217;m thankful that McGreevey is being honest enough about what he believes and how he wants to live to recognize that he could no longer be Catholic. Obviously, it would be far better if he were to reconcile with the Church. But, since that apparently isn&#8217;t going to happen anytime soon, it&#8217;s best that he not pretend to be a devout, obedient Catholic while holding views that clearly contradict Church teaching. Now, if only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignatius.com\/Magazines\/CWR\/pelosi.htm\" target=\"_blank\">some other politicians<\/a> would be equally honest and consistent..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor McGreevy announces he is now an &quot;Episcopalian American&quot;, though some consider it redundant from his announcement two years ago that &#8216;I am a gay American.&#8216; So good luck to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","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=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}