{"id":2618,"date":"2014-06-25T23:46:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T04:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2014-06-25T23:46:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T04:46:19","slug":"walking-with-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/06\/25\/walking-with-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking with Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Fat.Toni.sXe\/posts\/10202439003397466\" target=\"_blank\">Toni<\/a>, we have a comparison of marching in the <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/10\/27\/halloween-parade-with-pastafarian-pirates\/\" target=\"_blank\">Halloween Parade<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/atheism\/comments\/28u16t\/the_oklahoma_atheists_at_the_pride_parade\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pride Parade<\/a>\u00a0here in OKC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s been a busy past few days, and I hadn&#8217;t had the time before now, but I was gonna tell you all how much fun I had at the Pride Parade on Sunday!<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago, I walked with the Oklahoma Atheists in the Halloween parade. We were mostly well-received, but I was shocked at how many people acted ugly to us&#8230;spitting at us, saying awful things about us burning in Hell, telling their kids not to take the candy we were passing out&#8230;even the children were spitting venom that night.<\/p>\n<p>I expected more of the same this year. Instead, we were met with cheers, applause, general positivism. I heard a single guy say that we needed to love god, but even he said it with a smile on his face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This gave me a bit of a warm and happy feeling, and I just wanted to pass some of that on. If your local atheist group is in a city that has a Pride Parade, I strongly encourage you guys to go out and march for equality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT:<\/strong> Photos have been posted up on the AOK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.643964549026361.1073741825.228811973874956&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/06\/AOK-Pride-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2620\" alt=\"AOK-Pride-2014\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/06\/AOK-Pride-2014.jpg\" width=\"666\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/06\/AOK-Pride-2014.jpg 666w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/06\/AOK-Pride-2014-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/06\/AOK-Pride-2014-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my friend Toni, we have a comparison of marching in the Halloween Parade and the Pride Parade\u00a0here in OKC:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-atheism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}