{"id":7625,"date":"2010-03-14T12:51:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T12:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/03\/14\/an-essay-on-gay-rights-in-afri\/"},"modified":"2010-03-14T12:51:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T12:51:20","slug":"an-essay-on-gay-rights-in-afri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/14\/an-essay-on-gay-rights-in-afri\/","title":{"rendered":"An Essay on Gay Rights in Africa by Desmond Tutu"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;But they are sinners,&#8221; I can hear the preachers and politicians say. &#8220;They are choosing a life of sin for which they must be punished.&#8221; My scientist and medical friends have shared with me a reality that so many gay people have confirmed, I now know it in my heart to be true. No one chooses to be gay. Sexual orientation, like skin color, is another feature of our diversity as a human family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/11\/AR2010031103341.html\">Read the whole thing here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But they are sinners,&#8221; I can hear the preachers and politicians say. &#8220;They are choosing a life of sin for which they must be punished.&#8221; My scientist and medical friends have shared with me a reality that so many gay people have confirmed, I now know it in my heart to be true. No one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/14\/an-essay-on-gay-rights-in-afri\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Essay on Gay Rights in Africa by Desmond Tutu<\/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":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1YZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625"}],"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=7625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}