{"id":3518,"date":"2015-08-15T17:23:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T22:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2015-08-18T20:59:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T01:59:43","slug":"progressive-oklahomans-rally-for-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/08\/15\/progressive-oklahomans-rally-for-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Oklahomans Rally for the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, about a hundred progressives and even a couple of\u00a0conservatives showed up on the north lawn of the Oklahoma State Capitol for an event entitled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/876475305720967\/\">Mary Fallin: Do Your Job &#8211; Obey the Constitution<\/a>. Organized by Jeff Williams and a few others, this grassroots effort\u00a0grew out of an increasing sense of frustration with the current administration&#8217;s slow-rolling the\u00a0process of removing the religious monument which has been\u00a0definitively <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/07\/29\/oklahoma-supreme-court-smacks-down-ten-commandments-again\/\">declared unconstitutional<\/a> by the State Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Take it down, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryFallin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MaryFallin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/cssBvqGUc8\">pic.twitter.com\/cssBvqGUc8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Blue Ball Skeptics (@BlueBallSkeptic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlueBallSkeptic\/status\/632641399775629313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was truly heartening\u00a0to see citizens exercising their First Amendment rights\u2014speech, assembly, redress of grievances, and freedom of religion\u2014all in one\u00a0public space. It was also deeply heartwarming to see atheists and people of faith coming together to support religious liberty for everyone. One speaker thundered against the monument&#8217;s graven images as an affront to her faith. Another extolled the virtues of religious freedom from the perspective of the United Methodist Church. Still another detailed the long history of Baptists in laying the foundations of American secularism.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bruce Prescott (plaintiff in OK Ten Commandments case) explains how Baptists were once pioneers of religious liberty. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/mOAYKjTIPV\">pic.twitter.com\/mOAYKjTIPV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Blue Ball Skeptics (@BlueBallSkeptic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlueBallSkeptic\/status\/632653047202578432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We shall see whether the local news gives us all a fair shake\u00a0this evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit:<\/strong> Alas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NEWS9\/posts\/10152974568622212?comment_id=10152974637622212&amp;offset=0&amp;total_comments=197&amp;comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R7%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\">not so much<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, about a hundred progressives and even a couple of\u00a0conservatives showed up on the north lawn of the Oklahoma&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518","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=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions\/3519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}