{"id":68,"date":"2005-07-21T14:59:35","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T20:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/?p=68"},"modified":"2013-02-23T06:30:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T06:30:42","slug":"positive-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2005\/07\/21\/positive-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was posted in the room today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.positiveliberty.com\/\">Positive Liberty<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe article <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.positiveliberty.com\/2005\/07\/how-not-to-make-me-ex-gay.html\">How Not to Make Me Ex-Gay<\/a> was what we were meant to read.  In case you&#8217;re reading my post much later, you might want to click on this link to read the article instead of having to find it.  The rather sickish letter from the &#8216;former gay&#8217; who really wants to help is kinda funny even without the pictures destroying the whole&#8230;stereotype or whatever the guy is trying to use.<\/p>\n<p>For a minute, I thought the letter-writer was some sort of&#8230;graduate from <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.gaytostraight.org\/\">GaytoStraight.org<\/a>, but that group claims that &#8216;same sex attraction&#8217; is &#8216;not a choice&#8217;, but you can somehow be cured&#8230;so, maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>I also recommend the essay linked at the beginning of the post, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.positiveliberty.com\/2004\/02\/without-pain-or-fear-or-guilt.html\">Without Pain or Fear or Guilt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was posted in the room today. Positive Liberty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-16","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}