{"id":1090,"date":"2004-09-18T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T01:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/18\/us-jews-are-sooooo-cool\/"},"modified":"2004-09-18T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2004-09-19T01:24:03","slug":"us-jews-are-sooooo-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"Us Jews are sooooo cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriagedebate.com\/mdblog\/2004_09_05_mdblog_archive.htm#109485115150819278\">Yay for Jews!<\/a> A recent poll shows that Jews are more supportive of same-sex marriage than any other religious group in the USA (55% in favor), and another 30% on top of that favor civil unions.\n<p>What happens a generation from now, when the large majority of synagogues recognize gay marriage? Eventually, this is going to come down to a question of why Evangelical marriages are universally recognized by the law but Jewish marriages aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<li>The same poll also found that strong majorities of <i>every single religous group in the USA<\/i> &#8211; which is to say, the entire US population &#8211; favors taxing the wealthy to fight poverty. (<a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org\/publications\/surveys\/green.pdf\">pdf file <\/a>&#8211; see page 19) Jews moreso than everyone else, but still &#8211; it was striking that there was such universal agreement.\n<li>The same poll (see page 27) also found that 24% of Evangelicals, <i>even when given the choice of saying that abortion should be legal in just a few circumstances<\/i>, prefer that abortion should be illegal in <i>every <\/i>circumstance. Who cares if the mother dies? Psychos.\n<p>In comparison, not one (0%) Jew said that abortion should be illegal in all circumstances. Again, us Heebs are in the right.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yay for Jews! A recent poll shows that Jews are more supportive of same-sex marriage than any other religious group in the USA (55% in favor), and another 30% on top of that favor civil unions. What happens a generation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1090\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}