{"id":632,"date":"2011-07-28T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/07\/speaking-of-the-churchs-teaching\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T13:35:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T20:35:27","slug":"speaking-of-the-churchs-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/07\/speaking-of-the-churchs-teaching.html","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of the Church&#8217;s teaching&#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>\u201cA central moral measure of any budget proposal is how it affects \u201cthe least of these\u201d (Matthew 25). The needs of those who are hungry and homeless, without work or in poverty should come first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The weakest and most powerless in our culture are children.  Having made war upon them and racked up a pile of 50,000,000 dead so far, our culture is now also carrying the war out of the privacy of the abortuary and into the public square with the odious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;aq=0&amp;oq=child-free&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;rlz=1T4ACAW_enUS400US347&amp;q=child-free\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cchild-free\u201d movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The child-free movement is a mark of deep evil.  Period.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA central moral measure of any budget proposal is how it affects \u201cthe least of these\u201d (Matthew 25). 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