{"id":40,"date":"2015-05-02T13:52:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T13:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/?p=48"},"modified":"2015-05-02T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T13:52:57","slug":"age-referendum-letter-from-dick-spicer-in-irish-examiner-on-2-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/2015\/05\/02\/age-referendum-letter-from-dick-spicer-in-irish-examiner-on-2-may-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Age Referendum &#8211; Letter from Dick Spicer in Irish Examiner on 2 May 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or do the rest of your readers also find it incredible that the Government is, on the one hand, advocating \u2018equal rights\u2019 in the marriage referendum, and on the other, promoting religious discrimination in the Presidential-age referendum?n<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" addthis_shareable\" src=\"http:\/\/media.central.ie\/media\/images\/a\/ArasAnUachtarain_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" \/><\/div>\n<p>nThe religious oath required of Presidents (and judges) is being extended to a new generation who might aspire to high office.nnThis is so clearly a violation of \u2018equal rights\u2019 that it is hard to see how anyone could propose both at the same time, let alone vote for both.nnUnless, maybe, the left hand won\u2019t know what the right is doing?nn<strong>Dick Spicer<\/strong>nn<em>Citizens to Separate Church &amp; State<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or do the rest of your readers also find it incredible that the Government is, on the one hand, advocating \u2018equal rights\u2019 in the marriage referendum, and on the other, promoting religious discrimination in the Presidential-age referendum?n nThe religious oath required of Presidents (and judges) is being extended to a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}