{"id":27623,"date":"2015-05-24T09:28:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T08:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=27623"},"modified":"2015-05-24T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T15:26:31","slug":"irish-voters-do-the-right-thing-church-was-on-the-wrong-side-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/irish-voters-do-the-right-thing-church-was-on-the-wrong-side-as-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Voters Do the Right Thing&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8230;Church Was On the Wrong Side, As Usual<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/live\/2015\/may\/23\/counting-underway-for-irelands-referendum-on-marriage-equality<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"block-title\">Ireland becomes first country to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote<\/h2>\n<div class=\"block-elements\">\n<p>Irish voters have decisively voted in favour of marriage equality, making Ireland the first country to do so through the ballot box. Only one of the 43 constituencies voted against the proposal \u2013 Roscommon-South Leitrim \u2013 while the yes vote exceeded 70% in many parts of Dublin. The no campaigners have paid tribute to their opponents, and the archbishop of Dublin has said the result should be a wake-up call for the Catholic church in Ireland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[title shortened by Lizzie]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Church Was On the Wrong Side, As Usual http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/live\/2015\/may\/23\/counting-underway-for-irelands-referendum-on-marriage-equality Ireland becomes first country to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote Irish voters have decisively voted in favour of marriage equality, making Ireland the first country to do so through the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/irish-voters-do-the-right-thing-church-was-on-the-wrong-side-as-usual\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}