{"id":331,"date":"2005-04-16T09:36:51","date_gmt":"2005-04-16T14:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=331"},"modified":"2005-04-16T09:36:51","modified_gmt":"2005-04-16T14:36:51","slug":"and-by-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"And by the way.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the nimrods who are praying for a new &#8220;liberal&#8221; pope, feck off. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal: You don&#8217;t go the ford dealership, buy a Ford, then complain it&#8217;s not a Pontiac. If you want to worship God, and you want to simultaneously be gay, Go to one of the churches that will accept you, there are a lot of them. Want married priests? go somewhere else. Want condom use? be a lutheran. <\/p>\n<p>This is not a cafeteria plan. There are rules. Don&#8217;t like them? tough. Go where the rules suit you. I will not hear anything about &#8220;well, I love being a catholic but&#8221; Sorry. Being a catholic means following the rules of catholicism. I&#8217;m not officially a catholic anymore because I&#8217;ve remarried outside the church. So I can&#8217;t receive communion, etc. Those are the rules. I follow them. I don&#8217;t like them, but I caused that by my direct actions, just as the direct actions of many people cause them some trouble with the church. I&#8217;m not going to ask the Church to change it&#8217;s rules to accomodate my sins, and neither will you. <\/p>\n<p>Update: Francis Poretto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eternityroad.info\/index.php\/weblog\/single\/a_house_of_god_or_a_den_ofwhat\/\">expounds<\/a>, with his usual depth of analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the nimrods who are praying for a new &#8220;liberal&#8221; pope, feck off. Here&#8217;s the deal: You don&#8217;t go the ford dealership, buy a Ford, then complain it&#8217;s not a Pontiac. If you want to worship God, and you want to simultaneously be gay, Go to one of the churches that will accept you, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}