{"id":281,"date":"2008-11-05T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=281"},"modified":"2011-09-03T10:54:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T17:54:07","slug":"despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/11\/despair\/","title":{"rendered":"Despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-gaymarriage6-2008nov06,0,6187089,full.story\">This<\/a> makes me incredibly sad.&nbsp; It even passed in LA County.&nbsp; I cannot believe we are writing discrimination into the state constitution (along with Arizona and Florida in this election cycle).&nbsp; I just cannot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/08\/propostition-8\/\">understand<\/a> how two people who love each other threaten your &#8220;marriage.&#8221;&nbsp; For me, these kind of laws and amendments do more to destroy the sanctity of marriage than anything else.&nbsp; It makes me ashamed to be a Christian and even remotely be associated with this kind of discrimination (as the majority of the funding for Prop 8 came from the Catholic and Mormon churches).&nbsp; I cannot imagine a God (or Jesus) not embracing us all&#8230;Black, White, Hispanic and yes, gay or straight.&nbsp; So yes, while I&#8217;m extremely hopeful with the election of Barack Obama as President, I&#8217;m extremely disappointed about the results of Prop 8.&nbsp; I for one will be praying that this can be changed soon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/images\/prop%208.PNG\" alt=\"prop 8.PNG\" width=\"501\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This makes me incredibly sad.&nbsp; It even passed in LA County.&nbsp; I cannot believe we are writing discrimination into the state constitution (along with Arizona and Florida in this election cycle).&nbsp; I just cannot understand how two people who love each other threaten your &#8220;marriage.&#8221;&nbsp; For me, these kind of laws and amendments do more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/11\/despair\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[239,205,49,206,243],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-global-world","tag-california","tag-marriage","tag-politics","tag-prop-8","tag-voting","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}