{"id":85729,"date":"2023-08-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85729"},"modified":"2023-08-17T13:19:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T18:19:03","slug":"85729","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85729","title":{"rendered":"Peer Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ping:  Scalia warned after the <em>Obergefell <\/em>same-sex marriage decision that it&#8217;d open the doors to use the law to de-normalize things that&#8217;d been normal for all of human history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pong:  Massachusetts &#8211; the Caliifornia of New England &#8211; rejects an adoptive couple, Mike and Kitty Burke because, as practicing Catholics, they would merely<em> love <\/em>a gay or transgender child, rather than aggressively affirm the child&#8217;s orientation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cKitty expressed that she does not believe in gender affirming care for children,\u201d the report noted, adding that she referred to such care as \u201cchemical castration\u201d and said she doesn\u2019t believe that people can choose their pronouns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Burke, meanwhile, told the social worker he has many friends who are gay or lesbian and has attended several same-sex weddings. He told the social worker he would likely attend his child\u2019s wedding if they married someone of the same sex.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said he would likely not consider any type of gender affirming care for a child under the age of 18&#8230;.In a later email, the social worker noted that the Burkes \u201chave a lot of strengths\u201d and \u201creally seems to understand adoption\/foster care.\u201d However, she wrote, \u201ctheir faith is not supportive [of LGBTQ+ youth] and neither are they.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there anything Scalia wasn&#8217;t right about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ping: Scalia warned after the Obergefell same-sex marriage decision that it&#8217;d open the doors to use the law to de-normalize things that&#8217;d been normal for all of human history. Pong: Massachusetts &#8211; the Caliifornia of New England &#8211; rejects an adoptive couple, Mike and Kitty Burke because, as practicing Catholics, they would merely love a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85731,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85729\/revisions\/85731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}