{"id":10277,"date":"2010-03-11T19:56:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T23:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10277"},"modified":"2010-03-11T19:56:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T23:56:04","slug":"please-let-them-secede-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10277","title":{"rendered":"PLEASE LET THEM SECEDE THIS TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really not sure that I want to live in the same country as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/Education\/Default.aspx?id=932790\">these &#8220;Christians.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JACKSON, MS &#8211; A northern Mississippi school district decided Wednesday not to host a high school prom after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo. (See earlier story)<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the school board met and issued a statement announcing it wouldn&#8217;t host the event at Itawamba County Agricultural High School in Fulton, &#8220;due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the super-&#8220;Christians&#8221; at OneNewsNow are cheering on the homophobes.  They even have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/Poll.aspx?ekfrm=933130\">rigged poll<\/a> on the subject.  Check out the Q&#038;A.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OneNewsNow.com Poll<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your reaction to a school district&#8217;s cancellation of its prom following a lesbian&#8217;s request to attend and bring her girlfriend? (related article)<\/p>\n<p>   1. The district should be commended for sticking to its morality-based policy<br \/>\n   2. The community should rally behind the district and host a private event<br \/>\n   3. The ACLU should know better than to flex its muscle in the Bible Belt<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How &#8217;bout a choice for people who are not still living in the 16th century?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really not sure that I want to live in the same country as these &#8220;Christians.&#8221; JACKSON, MS &#8211; A northern Mississippi school district decided Wednesday not to host a high school prom after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo. (See earlier story) Instead, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10278,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277\/revisions\/10278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}