{"id":3947,"date":"2013-01-01T21:20:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T02:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2013-01-01T21:26:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T02:26:23","slug":"you-cannot-go-against-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3947","title":{"rendered":"You cannot go against nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flyingmachines.org\/ritchel03.jpg\" width=\"358\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fig. 1. Natural<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cardinal George sadly continues to embarrass himself on the subject of gay marriage. \u00c2\u00a0He has issued a letter which some unfortunate Catholics will find in their Sunday bulletins. \u00c2\u00a0From the Tribune.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chicago&#8217;s Cardinal Francis George officially entered the political fray today, issuing a letter that urges parishioners to contact state legislators and voice opposition to gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Civil laws that establish &#8216;same sex marriage&#8217; create a legal fiction,&#8221; George wrote in a letter sent to priests today. &#8220;The State has no power to create something that nature itself tells us is impossible.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone wiser than me once said that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mostpopularsongs.net\/Love+and+Rockets\/No_New_Tale_To_Tell\/\">you cannot go against nature, because when you do, it&#8217;s part of nature too:<\/a>&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0See Figure 1.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a fellow somewhere up on I-94 in Wisconsin whose home boasts a sign: Study Natural Law. \u00c2\u00a0I think the Cardinal might have studied with him.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Happy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal George sadly continues to embarrass himself on the subject of gay marriage. \u00c2\u00a0He has issued a letter which some unfortunate Catholics will find in their Sunday bulletins. \u00c2\u00a0From the Tribune. Chicago&#8217;s Cardinal Francis George officially entered the political fray today, issuing a letter that urges parishioners to contact state legislators and voice opposition to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3947\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You cannot go against nature<\/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":[1],"tags":[1267,1558],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cardinal-francis-george","tag-natural-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","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=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}