{"id":1226,"date":"2015-12-04T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html"},"modified":"2015-12-04T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T10:18:00","slug":"where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html","title":{"rendered":"Where liberalism is there is no liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>So in Ireland, where those hipster Europeans aren\u2019t burdened by our boring Bill of Rights,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/lesson-learned-irelands-catholic-schools-cant-discriminate-against-002426239.html?soc_src=mail&amp;soc_trk=ma\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the government has made it illegal for religious schools to follow their religious beliefs<\/a>. \u00a0Once again, homosexuality is the nuclear missile in the liberal arsenal that is being used to drive a wedge between the beautiful people with stars on their bellies who deserve rights (at least the right to legal drugs and aborting babies for better sex lives), and those wicked bigots and evil types who don\u2019t really deserve to be free. <\/p>\n<p>This is why the Left panics when something like the San Bernardino shooting happens. \u00a0It challenges the carefully constructed alternate unreality that it uses to advance its dreams for a new world order dominated by evolution\u2019s greatest. \u00a0And we can\u2019t have that. \u00a0So we\u2019ll see all manner of strange attempts to avoid the common sense reality of the tragic events in California and the common sense approaches to fixing the problems. \u00a0Meanwhile, Google News \u2013 a left of left source for editorials disguised as news \u2013 gushes with joy and happiness that one more spike has been hammered into the coffin of freedom to not be liberal.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><i>One Ring to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So in Ireland, where those hipster Europeans aren\u2019t burdened by our boring Bill of Rights,\u00a0the government has made it illegal for religious schools to follow their religious beliefs. \u00a0Once again, homosexuality is the nuclear missile in the liberal arsenal that is being used to drive a wedge between the beautiful people with stars on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where liberalism is there is no liberty<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So in Ireland, where those hipster Europeans aren&#039;t burdened by our boring Bill of Rights,&nbsp;the government has made it illegal for religious schools\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Where liberalism is there is no liberty\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So in Ireland, where those hipster Europeans aren&#039;t burdened by our boring Bill of Rights,&nbsp;the government has made it illegal for religious schools\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Daffey Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-12-04T10:18:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dave Griffey\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dave Griffey\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html\",\"name\":\"Where liberalism is there is no liberty\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-12-04T10:18:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-12-04T10:18:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/9de3f33a0818ebc53727444b649c82a7\"},\"description\":\"So in Ireland, where those hipster Europeans aren't burdened by our boring Bill of Rights,&nbsp;the government has made it illegal for religious schools\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Where liberalism is there is no liberty\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/\",\"name\":\"Daffey Thoughts\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/9de3f33a0818ebc53727444b649c82a7\",\"name\":\"Dave Griffey\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/546cf1ab64797c201cc8ad19185f2e57?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/546cf1ab64797c201cc8ad19185f2e57?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Dave Griffey\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/author\/dgriffey\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Where liberalism is there is no liberty","description":"So in Ireland, where those hipster Europeans aren't burdened by our boring Bill of Rights,&nbsp;the government has made it illegal for religious schools","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Where liberalism is there is no liberty","og_description":"So in Ireland, where those hipster Europeans aren't burdened by our boring Bill of Rights,&nbsp;the government has made it illegal for religious schools","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html","og_site_name":"Daffey Thoughts","article_published_time":"2015-12-04T10:18:00+00:00","author":"Dave Griffey","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dave Griffey","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html","name":"Where liberalism is there is no liberty","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-12-04T10:18:00+00:00","dateModified":"2015-12-04T10:18:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/9de3f33a0818ebc53727444b649c82a7"},"description":"So in Ireland, where those hipster Europeans aren't burdened by our boring Bill of Rights,&nbsp;the government has made it illegal for religious schools","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/where-liberalism-is-there-is-no-liberty.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Where liberalism is there is no liberty"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/","name":"Daffey Thoughts","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/9de3f33a0818ebc53727444b649c82a7","name":"Dave Griffey","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/546cf1ab64797c201cc8ad19185f2e57?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/546cf1ab64797c201cc8ad19185f2e57?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Dave Griffey"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/author\/dgriffey"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}