{"id":2673,"date":"2008-06-03T20:04:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T20:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/06\/03\/christian-group-eats-sour-grap\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T20:04:30","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T20:04:30","slug":"christian-group-eats-sour-grap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/christian-group-eats-sour-grap\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Group eats Sour Grapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A Christian legal organization says it has sued to stop New York from recognizing same-sex marriages legally performed in other states.The Alliance Defense Fund says it filed its lawsuit Tuesday in a court in the Bronx. Several Republican state senators are named as party to the suit.Gay marriage is unconstitutional in New York. Gov. David Paterson however told state agencies on May 14 that New York must recognize same-sex marriages performed in Massachusetts, Canada and other places where they are legal.The Arizona-based legal group filing the lawsuit has intervened elsewhere in gay marriage and religious freedom cases including those involving abortion and what it calls traditional family values.<a href=\"http:\/\/365gay.com\/Newscon08\/06\/060308ny.htm\">source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alliance_Defense_Fund\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alliance Defense Fund (&#8220;ADF&#8221;) is a conservative Christian non-profit organization with the stated goal of &#8220;defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through strategy, training, funding, and litigation.&#8221;[1] In practice ADF is opposed to all forms of abortion, same-sex marriage, adoption by same-sex couples, allowing LGBT persons to serve in the military, and sex education in schools that includes comprehensive education on contraception.[2] ADF also works to establish public prayer in schools and government events, and to protect religious displays in government settings, like crosses and other religious monuments built on public lands<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The organization was founded by Bill Bright, who also founded the notorious Campus Crusade for Christ.Bright is also a signatory on the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/erlc.com\/article\/the-so-called-land-letter\">Land Letter<\/a>, which gave theological justification for the War in Iraq.Onward Christian Soldiers. Unless your are gay.  In which case, Jesus does not love you.  Especially if you are from Massachusetts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christian legal organization says it has sued to stop New York from recognizing same-sex marriages legally performed in other states.The Alliance Defense Fund says it filed its lawsuit Tuesday in a court in the Bronx. Several Republican state senators are named as party to the suit.Gay marriage is unconstitutional in New York. Gov. David &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/christian-group-eats-sour-grap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christian Group eats Sour Grapes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[230],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-H7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}