{"id":52500,"date":"2014-05-06T10:05:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T17:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=52500"},"modified":"2014-12-29T00:18:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T07:18:42","slug":"dear-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/05\/dear-un.html","title":{"rendered":"Dear UN&#8230;"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2014\/05\/06\/united-nations-calls-catholic-churchs-pro-life-teachings-promoting-torture\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">United Nations Calls Catholic Church\u2019s Pro-Life Teachings \u201cPromoting Torture\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for being God\u2019s gift to every supporter of torture in the Church. From here on in, anytime somebody says \u201ctorture is wrong\u201d torture supporters will be able to cry \u201cOh, I suppose you are one of those UN buffoons who thinks opposition to abortion is \u201cpromoting torture\u201d.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s your <a href=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/63c6fb09e9c751cc864e79da2dfe57c4\/tumblr_inline_mo9f7uoUhw1qz4rgp.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tina Fey Eyeroll<\/a>, UN morons.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing how something as uncomplicated as \u201cDon\u2019t torture and murder people\u201d has become a huge conflicted moral conundrum for so many.\u00a0 Opposition to abortion and opposition to torture are *obviously* two sides of the same coin.\u00a0 How can this be opaque to so many people?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Calls Catholic Church\u2019s Pro-Life Teachings \u201cPromoting Torture\u201d Thanks for being God\u2019s gift to every supporter of torture in the Church. 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