{"id":40165,"date":"2014-03-04T12:27:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40165"},"modified":"2014-03-04T12:27:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:27:17","slug":"american-humanist-association-the-easily-shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40165","title":{"rendered":"American Humanist Association; the easily shocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=40166\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40166\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cross-offensive-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"cross - offensive\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cross-offensive-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cross-offensive-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cross-offensive.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/03\/04\/humanist-group-sues-to-remove-cross-shaped-wwi-memorial-in-maryland\/?intcmp=latestnews\">Fox News<\/a> reports that the American Humanist Association is urging government leaders to remove a World War One memorial from a park in Prince George&#8217;s County in Maryland because the memorial is in the shape of a cross. The memorial has been there since 1925.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Steven Lowe, a plaintiff from Washington, said was &#8220;shocked&#8221; when he first saw the cross and is &#8220;upset&#8221; whenever he passes it, according to the complaint obtained by the newspaper. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He believes that the Bladensburg Cross associates a Christian religious symbol with the state and gives the impression that the state supports and approves of Christianity, as opposed to other religions, and that the state may even prefer Christians and Christianity over other religions,&#8221; the complaint reads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a grown up &#8211; he&#8217;s shocked and upset by the sight of a memorial. I&#8217;m shocked and upset that people like this are able to live among us without being publicly shamed. I&#8217;m not a religious person, it&#8217;s been a decade or so since I&#8217;ve been in a church, yet seeing a cross in public space doesn&#8217;t compel me to attend a Christian gathering, or make me change my mind about religion or religious institutions. Lowe must be a fairly weak person if he&#8217;s so ashamed of his own life choices. If he&#8217;s so upset, maybe he could try not passing the memorial.<\/p>\n<p>Next thing you know, these weak-minded busy-bodies will have us removing the tens of thousands of crosses on graves of US troops around the world, since those cemeteries are technically US government property, too.<\/p>\n<p>For a bunch of people so worried about people&#8217;s rights, they sure like to trample on our heritage while ignoring our rights. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that the American Humanist Association is urging government leaders to remove a World &hellip; <a title=\"American Humanist Association; the easily shocked\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40165\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">American Humanist Association; the easily shocked<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}