{"id":2212,"date":"2009-11-12T10:18:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2009-11-12T10:18:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:18:04","slug":"repostletters-of-note-if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/12\/repostletters-of-note-if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Letters of Note: If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.<\/strong> I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2009\/11\/if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is.html\">Letters of Note: If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am beginning to believe that this is how we are going to view same-sex marriage(same-sex Civil Union).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/12\/repostletters-of-note-if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Letters of Note: If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}