{"id":1429,"date":"2015-06-20T09:06:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T13:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2015-06-20T09:06:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T13:06:23","slug":"racing-backward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1429","title":{"rendered":"Racing backward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/detroit.cbslocal.com\/2015\/06\/18\/michigan-bill-would-require-all-marriages-to-be-sanctioned-by-religion\/\" target=\"_blank\">bid to obstruct same-sex marriages<\/a>, a just-introduced Michigan bill would require that all marriage certificates be signed by a clergyman.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Republican Representative Todd Courser from Lapeer County says one of the bills would require that a clergy member sign any marriage certificate in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m completely traditional marriage \u2013 I believe that the traditional marriage is really God\u2019s model for marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One wonders how a man so ignorant of American history &#8212; Does he actually not know that this is by Constitutional design a <i>secular<\/i> state? &#8212; could get elected to any position of responsibility.  The explanation of it, I suppose, is that most Americans, or Michiganders at least, don&#8217;t know very much about the country they live in, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to obstruct same-sex marriages, a just-introduced Michigan bill would require that all marriage certificates be signed by a clergyman. Republican Representative Todd Courser from Lapeer County says one of the bills would require that a clergy member &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1429\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}