{"id":653,"date":"2008-04-05T19:23:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T23:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/04\/05\/oh-dear\/"},"modified":"2008-04-05T19:23:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T23:23:01","slug":"oh-dear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/04\/05\/oh-dear\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Dear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m <em>shocked<\/em> to report that the Westboro Baptist Church has apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/cjonline.com\/stories\/040408\/loc_264906171.shtml\">had a lien filed against its properties<\/a> in an attempt to satisfy the $5 million judgment against them when they picketed the funeral of a (presumably straight) soldier killed in Iraq. These are also the people who have gone around with &#8220;Thank God for IEDs&#8221; (Improvised Explosive Devices, the roadside bombs that keep killing our troops in Iraq), &#8220;Thank God for Katrina&#8221; (referring to the hurricane that devastated New Orleans), and even the group that praised God for killing firefighters on 9\/11. Why are they excited about all of these horrific events? Because they&#8217;re apparently God taking vengeance on America for its tolerance of homosexuals. (In other news, America is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DOMA\">tolerant<\/a> of homosexuals?)<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I should disclaim that, although they&#8217;re the Westboro Baptist Church, the actual Baptist Church has been careful to distance itself from them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not familiar with the case, but I do have to admit that, on the surface, it seems as if the First Amendment ought to have protected them. But, well, this is one group I&#8217;m not too sad to see go under.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m shocked to report that the Westboro Baptist Church has apparently had a lien filed against its properties in an attempt to satisfy the $5 million judgment against them when they picketed the funeral of a (presumably straight) soldier killed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/04\/05\/oh-dear\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-links","category-politics","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}