{"id":3457,"date":"2012-03-08T07:23:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2012-03-11T17:35:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T22:35:41","slug":"bend-my-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3457","title":{"rendered":"Bend my beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An obvious point&nbsp;(forgive me I&#39;ve&nbsp;been really busy), but how does one properly evaluate views&nbsp;one finds hateful?&nbsp; Here&#39;s Growing Pains&#39; star and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2z-OLG0KyR4\">banana enthusiast<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/kirk-cameron-asks-for-understanding-over-his-anti-gay-remarks-201263\">Kirk Cameron<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I should be able to express moral views on social issues, especially those that have been the underpinning of Western civilization for 2,000 years &mdash;-&nbsp;without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told from those who preach &#39;tolerance&#39; that <strong>I need to either bend my beliefs to their moral standards<\/strong> or be silent when I&#39;m in the public square.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, when Kirk Cameron is calling&nbsp;others immoral, and advocating that they pray away the gay, or whatever&nbsp;it is they should do, how dare they ask him to bend his&nbsp;beliefs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An obvious point&nbsp;(forgive me I&#39;ve&nbsp;been really busy), but how does one properly evaluate views&nbsp;one finds hateful?&nbsp; Here&#39;s Growing Pains&#39; star and&nbsp;banana enthusiast Kirk Cameron: I should be able to express moral views on social issues, especially those that have been the underpinning of Western civilization for 2,000 years &mdash;-&nbsp;without being slandered, accused of hate speech, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3457\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bend my beliefs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1109,145],"tags":[1327,1326],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argument-from-double-standards","category-religion-op-ed-writers-sources","tag-bananas","tag-kirk-cameron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3463,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}