{"id":12594,"date":"2013-04-01T08:45:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T13:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12594"},"modified":"2013-04-01T08:45:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T13:45:58","slug":"a-surprising-lead-from-the-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/01\/a-surprising-lead-from-the-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"A Surprising Lead from the AP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/national\/high-court-poised-to-upend-civil-rights-policies\/article_3174eb1b-063f-57be-adf2-dcce9051c384.html\" target=\"_blank\">High court poised to upend<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Has the world lived evolved past its history of traditional concepts of marriage and family and<em>[sic]<\/em> should the law become tolerant of alternate lifestyles?<\/p>\n<p>Addressing two pivotal legal issues, &#8230; a divided Supreme Court is poised to answer those questions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, sorry, it&#8217;s not historic traditions and customs that evolved through millennia that should cause such soul-searching; I&#8217;m sure AP is all about dumping that without any thought higher than &#8220;HOMOPHOBE!&#8221;  Instead, the pondering must occur to doubt whether the court should overturn legislation that is a couple of decades old.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind?<\/p>\n<p>Addressing two pivotal legal issues, one on affirmative action and a second on voting rights, a divided Supreme Court is poised to answer those questions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only in the latter case is anything to be &#8220;upended,&#8221; that is, turned over and thrown into disarray.  In the former, it&#8217;s somehow different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High court poised to upend: Has the world lived evolved past its history of traditional concepts of marriage and family and[sic] should the law become tolerant of alternate lifestyles? Addressing two pivotal legal issues, &#8230; a divided Supreme Court is poised to answer those questions. No, sorry, it&#8217;s not historic traditions and customs that evolved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12596,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594\/revisions\/12596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}