{"id":38794768,"date":"2006-12-22T03:08:23","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T03:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2006\/12\/yes-virginia-th.html"},"modified":"2013-04-09T00:39:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T00:39:05","slug":"200612yes-virginia-th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2006\/12\/22\/200612yes-virginia-th-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes Virginia, there are gays and muslims&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our state&#8217;s tourism motto is &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginia.org\/\">Virginia is for Lovers<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>Recent headlines might make you think otherwise.  In just the last week, a number of Virginia Epispicol parishes have split from the U.S. Epispicol Church over their tolerant treatment of gays, and a member of Virginia&#8217;s Congressional Delegation wrote a letter to constituents warning that if we didn&#8217;t change our immigration policies, we will be subject to more muslims in America.<\/p>\n<p>I think our motto may need a qualifying asterisk to add some fine print&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>* only applies to heterosexuals and lovers of a christian god<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Shameful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/21\/AR2006122101612.html\">A Bigot in Congress<\/a><br \/>The Washington Post, 12\/22\/06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/12\/20\/lawmaker.koran\/index.html\">Lawmaker won&#8217;t apologize for &#8216;Islamophobic&#8217; letter<\/a><br \/>CNN.com, 12\/20\/06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/19\/AR2006121901282.html\">Episcopalians Against Equality<\/a><br \/>Washington Post, 12\/20\/06<\/p>\n<p>with thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/waldo.jaquith.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/goode-anti-muslim\/\">Waldo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/americablog.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/virginia-is-for-macacas.html\">AmericaBlog<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/12\/20\/goode-apology\/\">Think Progress<\/a> for the story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our state&#8217;s tourism motto is &#8216;Virginia is for Lovers&#8217;. Recent headlines might make you think otherwise. In just the last week, a number of Virginia Epispicol parishes have split from the U.S. Epispicol Church over their tolerant treatment of gays,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38794768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMi4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38794768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354416,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794768\/revisions\/173354416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38794768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38794768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38794768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}