{"id":8047,"date":"2003-08-02T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2003-08-02T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/08\/02\/caring-kerry\/"},"modified":"2003-08-02T11:22:02","modified_gmt":"2003-08-02T16:22:02","slug":"caring-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/08\/caring-kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Caring Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Boston-AP &#8212; Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says the Vatican has crossed the line in America when it says Catholic politicians have a &#8220;moral duty&#8221; to oppose laws granting legal rights to gay couples.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The Massachusetts senator, who is Catholic, says he believes in the church and cares about it enormously. But he says &#8220;it&#8217;s important to not have the church instructing politicians.&#8221;<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wkbn.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=1385872\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Who does the Vatican think it is giving him orders?  It&#8217;s not like they are NOW, Planned Parenthood, or the DNC.  What is with the Church instructing and teaching people?  It is as if they take the Gospel seriously or something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,<br \/>\nteaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.&#8221; Matt 28:19-20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston-AP &#8212; Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says the Vatican has crossed the line in America when it says Catholic politicians have a &#8220;moral duty&#8221; to oppose laws granting legal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047","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=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}