{"id":6205,"date":"2012-02-19T07:08:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T14:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=6205"},"modified":"2012-02-19T07:08:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T14:08:41","slug":"peeling-back-the-layers-of-nonsense-around-the-catholic-contraceptives-campaign-talking-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2012\/02\/19\/peeling-back-the-layers-of-nonsense-around-the-catholic-contraceptives-campaign-talking-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Peeling back the layers of nonsense around the &#8220;Catholic, contraceptives&#8221; campaign talking point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2012\/feb\/15\/contraception-con-men\/\">Garry Wills<\/a> expertly peels back the layers of nonsense and cynicism around the American bishops decision to make common cause with Rick Santorum:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Catholics who do not accept the phony argument over contraception are said to be \u201cgoing against the teachings of their church.\u201d That is nonsense. They are their church. The Second Vatican Council defines the church as \u201cthe people of God.\u201d Thinking that the pope is the church is a relic of the days when a monarch was said to be his realm. The king was \u201cDenmark.\u201d Catholics have long realized that their own grasp of certain things, especially sex, has a validity that is lost on the celibate male hierarchy. This is particularly true where celibacy is concerned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garry Wills expertly peels back the layers of nonsense and cynicism around the American bishops decision to make common cause with Rick Santorum: Catholics who do not accept the phony argument over contraception are said to be \u201cgoing against the teachings of their church.\u201d That is nonsense. They are their church. The Second Vatican Council&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}