{"id":3736,"date":"2010-09-09T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2010-09-09T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T16:18:00","slug":"for-perspective-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3736","title":{"rendered":"For Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a Facebook post by La Shawn Barber:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>So much ink and hand-wringing over Koran-burning, yet so little over child killing. Strange, that.<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If we could get Democrats this riled up over living beings, we&#8217;d have substantially fewer abortion tomorrow.&#160; But they reserve their high dudgeon for &#8230; books.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Well, holy books to be sure, but not all holy books.&#160; See, it all depends on how the believers in said holy book might react.&#160; La Shawn&#8217;s Facebook post <a href=\"http:\/\/lashawnbarber.com\/archives\/2010\/09\/08\/koran-burning-and-baby-killing\/\">links to her blog<\/a> which adds this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Burn an Islamic holy book, and Muslims kill in retaliation. Burn the Bible, and Christians pray for the one who lights the match and for the crowd cheering.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The planned Koran burnings are being highly, and rightly, criticized by the Left.&#160; There are various reasons cited &#8212; Islamophobia, America&#8217;s reputation, insensitivity &#8212; but given the two different ways those believers react, it appears the Left only complains loudly when they might be hurt by those believers.&#160; It&#8217;s more self-preservation than any pretense of religious tolerance.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>And children being killed in the name of convenience?&#160; Well, that&#8217;s a <em>right<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Facebook post by La Shawn Barber: So much ink and hand-wringing over Koran-burning, yet so little over child killing. Strange, that. If we could get Democrats this riled up over living beings, we&#8217;d have substantially fewer abortion tomorrow.&#160; But they reserve their high dudgeon for &#8230; books.&#160; Well, holy books to be sure, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30,9,34,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-christianity","category-doug","category-islam","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","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=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}