{"id":31297,"date":"2012-03-11T21:45:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T21:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/irish_roman_catholic_bishop_investigated_for_hate_crime_for_upsetting_human\/"},"modified":"2012-03-11T21:45:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T21:45:06","slug":"irish_roman_catholic_bishop_investigated_for_hate_crime_for_upsetting_human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31297","title":{"rendered":"Irish Roman Catholic Bishop investigated for \u201d\u02dchate crime\u2019 for upsetting humanist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Roman Catholic Bishop in Ireland is being investigated under \u201d\u02dchate crime\u2019 laws for delivering a homily that upset a humanist.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop\u2019s unremarkable comments warned of \u201cthe arrows of a secular and godless culture\u201d\u009d and that only believers \u201cknow in general terms that their life will not end in emptiness\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Humanist John Colgan complained about the remarks to the police. Now prosecutors are investigating the Bishop of Raphoe, Dr Philip Boyce, under Ireland\u2019s \u201d\u02dcincitement to hatred\u2019 laws.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christian.org.uk\/news\/bishop-investigated-for-hate-crime-for-upsetting-humanist\">Read it all<\/a> (another from the long queue of should-have-already-been-posted material).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Roman Catholic Bishop in Ireland is being investigated under \u201d\u02dchate crime\u2019 laws for delivering a homily that upset a humanist. The Bishop\u2019s unremarkable comments warned of \u201cthe arrows of a secular and godless culture\u201d\u009d and that only believers \u201cknow<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31297\">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":[39,42,114,154,155,108,364,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31297","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=31297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}