{"id":2374,"date":"2009-10-02T12:37:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T16:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2009-10-02T12:37:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T16:37:52","slug":"on-gauging-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2374","title":{"rendered":"On Gauging Morality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Weinstein, who started a pro-Roman-Polanski petition which is making the rounds among Hollywood&#8217;s filmmakers, called Polanski&#8217;s rape of a 13-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-et-polanski1-2009oct01,0,1755914.story\">a &quot;so-called crime&quot;<\/a>.&#160; <em>Then<\/em> he had the audacity to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion,&quot; Weinstein said. &quot;We were the people who did the fundraising telethon for the victims of 9\/11. We were there for the victims of Katrina and any world catastrophe.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus, a peek inside the secular liberal mind; if you do the right things, all else is forgiven.&#160; And I mean <em>all<\/em>.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Talk about earning your salvation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Weinstein, who started a pro-Roman-Polanski petition which is making the rounds among Hollywood&#8217;s filmmakers, called Polanski&#8217;s rape of a 13-year-old a &quot;so-called crime&quot;.&#160; Then he had the audacity to say: &quot;Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion,&quot; Weinstein said. &quot;We were the people who did the fundraising telethon for the victims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,55,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-ethics-morality","category-liberal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}