{"id":7610,"date":"2023-05-03T12:09:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7610"},"modified":"2023-05-03T12:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:09:04","slug":"those-differences-of-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7610","title":{"rendered":"Those &#8220;Differences of Opinion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8216;Twas a time when a slaveholder was viewed by abolitionists as just another fellow citizen with contrary political beliefs.\u00a0\u00a0 He was entitled to his opinion (for a season),\u00a0 though it was one which eventually could not be tolerated.\u00a0 Some opinions are <em>not to be tolerated<\/em> when they are carried out into the public arena.\u00a0\u00a0 Slavery finally could not be tolerated when those who had a grip on <em>truth and justice<\/em> finally put on their big-boy pants and did something about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmm.&nbsp; Abortion comes to mind.&nbsp; Those folks who support it, like the slavers, are folks who just &#8220;have another opinion.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out that some opinions in some times and circumstances make for <em>big differences<\/em> &#8211; even wars. &nbsp;Some opinions are deadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where will our unsettled differences on child-slaughter (a.k.a. &#8220;reproductive rights&#8221; or &#8220;choice&#8221;) take us as a nation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1000 on 3 May, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Twas a time when a slaveholder was viewed by abolitionists as just another fellow citizen with contrary political beliefs.\u00a0\u00a0 He was entitled to his opinion (for a season),\u00a0 though it was one which eventually could not be tolerated.\u00a0 Some opinions are not to be tolerated when they are carried out into the public arena.\u00a0\u00a0 Slavery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,9,23,31,8,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7611,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions\/7611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}