{"id":188649,"date":"2010-08-18T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/18\/i-wish-that-i-lived-in-pennsylvania-right-now\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T01:03:00","slug":"i-wish-that-i-lived-in-pennsylvania-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/18\/i-wish-that-i-lived-in-pennsylvania-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wish that I Lived In Pennsylvania Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to vote for Joe Sestak, candidate for Senate,who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/maggiehaberman\/0810\/Sestak_joins_Bloomy_in_supporting_religious_freedom_on_mosque_.html\">just did his commonwealth proud<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Sestak chimed in, &#8220;As you know, I haven&#8217;t taken very good direction yet from party leadership. All that said, I strongly believe in the constitutional right of religious freedom and in the separation of church and state applying equally to everyone. Those are rights that I defended for 31 years in that fine U.S. Navy. This is an issue for New York to resolve as long as it respects those constitutional rights. &#8230; Let&#8217;s also step back and say, &#8216;Let&#8217;s stop playing politics with religion.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>When someone asked about the sensitivities of the Sept. 11 families, Sestak said, &#8220;Do I respect those sensitivities? Oh yeah. When I walked out of that Pentagon, 30 people who I knew never walked out of that building. My 9\/11 is that Pentagon. Am I sensitive to their desires? Sure I am. But I also upheld the Constitution for 31 years. I lived with men and women of all religons and you know what? They&#8217;re all equal, and I believe that is what&#8217;s most omportant in this.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll write <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">him<\/span> in in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not feeling to hopey changey about Dr. Dean today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to vote for Joe Sestak, candidate for Senate,who just did his commonwealth proud: Sestak chimed in, &#8220;As you know, I haven&#8217;t taken very good direction yet from party leadership. All that said, I strongly believe in the constitutional right of religious freedom and in the separation of church and state applying equally to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1240,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-integrity","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}