{"id":779,"date":"2009-04-30T06:47:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T06:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=779"},"modified":"2009-04-30T06:47:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T06:47:05","slug":"legislation_to_create_the_thou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Legislation To Create The Thought Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the House of Representatives passed a law to exend hate-crimes laws to sexual orientation.&nbsp; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/apr\/30\/thought-crimes\/\">Washington Times<\/a>&nbsp;this morning has an editorial about this law.&nbsp; The editorial reminds us&nbsp;that harming any person, regardless of their sexual orientation, is already a crime.&nbsp; Why do we need a law against hate?&nbsp; Admittedly, hate is not a constructive thing, and it would probably be better if all of us avoided it, but why make it a crime?&nbsp; Who determines exactly what &#8216;hate speech&#8217; is?&nbsp; The Bible speaks out against sexual promiscuity (both gay and straight), if I mention that, is it hate speech?&nbsp; If my pastor mentions that, is it hate speech?&nbsp; If this law passes the Senate, it could result in a degree of censorship that all of us would regret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the House of Representatives passed a law to exend hate-crimes laws to sexual orientation.&nbsp; The Washington Times&nbsp;this morning has an editorial about this law.&nbsp; The editorial reminds us&nbsp;that harming any person, regardless of their sexual orientation, is already a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=779\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}