{"id":26020,"date":"2018-08-13T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rentonnews.us\/opinion\/alliance-defending-freedom-not-hate-group-letter-to-the-editor\/"},"modified":"2018-08-13T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T08:30:00","slug":"alliance-defending-freedom-not-hate-group-letter-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/letters\/alliance-defending-freedom-not-hate-group-letter-to-the-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Alliance Defending Freedom not hate group | Letter to the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note: The following letters to the editor are in response to Courier-Herald editor Ray Miller-Still&rsquo;s editorial that ran in the Aug. 3 edition of The Reporter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recently, the editor of the Courier-Herald indicated that the Southern Poverty Law Center designates theAlliance Defending Freedom as a hate group. It was clarified that the group does not commit hate crimes&mdash; a positive clarification. But the only basis for the ADF&rsquo;s designation as a hate group was &ldquo;their publicopinions and legal work against the LGBTQ community.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, any group that does not adhere to very recent (historically-speaking) perspectives on sexuality which reject marriage and sexuality as defined by the Bible is considered a hate group.<\/p>\n<p>The taking of such a position, especially by a journalist in a news publication, is unnecessarilyinflammatory, misleading and inherently offensive to the significant percentage of readers who respect the Bible as the Word of God.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Gannon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&rsquo;s Note: The following letters to the editor are in response to Courier-Herald editor Ray Miller-Still&rsquo;s editorial that ran in...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":26021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26020"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}