{"id":51,"date":"2015-09-03T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T16:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/?p=51"},"modified":"2015-09-17T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T17:01:11","slug":"news-comment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/2015\/09\/03\/news-comment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"News Comment #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/03\/us\/kentucky-rowan-county-clerk-kim-davis-denies-marriage-license.html?_r=0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Rowan County\u00a0Kentucky, county clerk of courts Kim Davis is facing some backlash after not issuing license to same-sex couples. She is not alone however, many former or current government employees argue that government employees should not be required to recognize same-sex marriage because it goes against their religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Davis garnered national attention Tuesday when she ignored court rulings and denied marriages licenses to gay couples. Ms. Davis&#8217;s lawyer is part of a group called the Liberty Counsel. The\u00a0Liberty Counsel was founded by Mr. Staver in 1989. This counsel includes\u00a010 lawyers who have had many of cases over the years fighting for the evangelical\u00a0christians.\u00a0Same-sex marriage has been a major issue since the rule that same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states.\u00a0They believe that homosexuality is \u201cagainst God\u2019s will\u201d and \u201crooted in fractured emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/03\/us\/kentucky-rowan-county-clerk-kim-davis-denies-marriage-license.html?_r=0 &nbsp; In Rowan County\u00a0Kentucky, county clerk of courts Kim Davis is facing some backlash after not issuing license to same-sex couples. She is not alone however, many former or current government employees argue that government employees should not be required to recognize same-sex marriage because it goes against their religious beliefs. Ms. Davis garnered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":915,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}