{"id":2757,"date":"2012-02-16T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/02\/obama-wins-battle-for-oppressing-rights.html"},"modified":"2012-02-16T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T10:37:00","slug":"obama-wins-battle-for-oppressing-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/02\/obama-wins-battle-for-oppressing-rights.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama wins battle for oppressing rights"},"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>It\u2019s not easy to get a country founded on freedom and liberty to begin jettisoning those two ideals.\u00a0 It takes a particularly useless generation to buy into it overnight.\u00a0 Not to gradually evolve through a series of generations or even centuries, where things once shunned are accepted.\u00a0 No, I\u2019m saying getting people who only weeks earlier said \u2018the government has no right to keep people from enjoying their rights, no matter what the majority thinks!\u2019, to say \u2018I don\u2019t care if the government steps on someone\u2019s rights, the majority says it doesn\u2019t matter, so who cares?\u2019\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/ticket\/public-backs-obama-birth-control-fight-poll-suggests-205113637.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read the poll<\/a>.\u00a0 The fact that the poll is supposed to mean something at all should be the news story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not easy to get a country founded on freedom and liberty to begin jettisoning those two ideals.\u00a0 It takes a particularly useless generation to buy into it overnight.\u00a0 Not to gradually evolve through a series of generations or even centuries, where things once shunned are accepted.\u00a0 No, I\u2019m saying getting people who only weeks [&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-2757","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>Obama wins battle for oppressing rights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s not easy to get a country founded on freedom and liberty to begin jettisoning those two ideals.&nbsp; 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