{"id":4012,"date":"2016-06-10T10:59:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T14:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2016-06-10T10:59:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T14:59:01","slug":"if-youre-a-roman-catholic-legislator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4012","title":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re a Roman Catholic legislator &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; in Pennsylvania, you may find yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/10\/us\/national-briefing.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">targeted for public odium<\/a> in the church bulletin.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Roman Catholic legislators say they have been publicly shamed during Mass and disinvited from parish events as the Philadelphia Archdiocese campaigns against a bill that would give victims of child sexual abuse more time to sue the church. State Representative Nick Miccarelli said he was shocked to learn that the weekly bulletin at his church targeted him. Under the headline \u201cJust So You Are Aware,\u201d the announcement read, \u201cState Representative Miccarelli voted in favor of House Bill 1947, which states that private institutions can be sued as far as 40 years ago for millions of dollars, while public institutions may not be sued for any crimes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Honestly, I don&#8217;t know how any educated, decent-minded adult can belong to <i>any<\/i> church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; in Pennsylvania, you may find yourself targeted for public odium in the church bulletin. Roman Catholic legislators say they have been publicly shamed during Mass and disinvited from parish events as the Philadelphia Archdiocese campaigns against a bill that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4012\">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\/4012"}],"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=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4013,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions\/4013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}