{"id":19369,"date":"2010-04-25T02:51:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T02:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/episcopal_bishop_kirk_smith-an_open_letter_to_our_spanish-speaking_arizona\/"},"modified":"2010-04-25T02:51:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T02:51:33","slug":"episcopal_bishop_kirk_smith-an_open_letter_to_our_spanish-speaking_arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19369","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Kirk Smith&#8211;An open letter to our Spanish-speaking Arizona Episcopalians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Dear Spanish-Speaking Brothers and Sisters in Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Today is a sad day in the struggle to see all God&#8217;s people treated in a humane and compassionate manner. I had hoped that our Governor and law-makers would listen to their consciences and not be swayed by the voices of bigotry and racism. With the Governor&#8217;s signing of SB 1070, it seems that for now the advocates of fear and hatred have won over those of charity and love. Arizona claims to be a Golden Rule State. We have not lived up to that claim.<\/p>\n<p>I know that the passage of this law is deeply troubling to many of you, especially those of undocumented status. I know that many of you fear for your jobs, your families, and your future in this state and in this country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/azdiocese.org\/dfc\/newsdetail_2\/831\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Dear Spanish-Speaking Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Today is a sad day in the struggle to see all God&#8217;s people treated in a humane and compassionate manner. I had hoped that our Governor and law-makers would listen to their<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19369\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,66,114,151,108,619,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-state-government","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}