{"id":199375,"date":"2007-08-06T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/06\/christian-fundies-think-that-jesus-is-a-soft-on-crime-pinko\/"},"modified":"2007-08-06T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T02:40:00","slug":"christian-fundies-think-that-jesus-is-a-soft-on-crime-pinko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/06\/christian-fundies-think-that-jesus-is-a-soft-on-crime-pinko\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Fundies Think That Jesus is a soft-on-crime Pinko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/LIVING\/wayoflife\/07\/18\/christian.watchers.ap\/index.html\">the wacko fundamentalists have decided that all that stuff about casting the first stone is some sort of communist secular humanist plot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They are now sending &#8220;court watchers&#8221; out to make sure that judges are sufficiently punitive.  Teaching a man to fish is just too pinko.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;. Yet, she added that she doesn&#8217;t feel pressured by the presence of Court Watch participants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me guess&#8230;elected judges&#8230;nope&#8230;no pressure there.  The independent judiciary, yet another bastion of modern thought opposed by the Talibaptists.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Neither does Circuit Judge R. Cletus Maricle, who said, &#8220;Some judges probably feel they are there to intimidate him. If the judge is intimidated, that&#8217;s his fault.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just had to note&#8230;.<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Circuit Judge R. Cletus Maricle<\/span><\/span>?????  There is not one &#8220;hillbilly&#8221; joke that could be funnier that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">that<\/span> reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it looks like the wacko fundamentalists have decided that all that stuff about casting the first stone is some sort of communist secular humanist plot. They are now sending &#8220;court watchers&#8221; out to make sure that judges are sufficiently punitive. Teaching a man to fish is just too pinko. &#8230;. Yet, she added that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,978,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199375"}],"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=199375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}