{"id":285,"date":"2005-06-23T18:10:03","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T18:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=279"},"modified":"2005-06-23T18:10:03","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T18:10:03","slug":"62105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"6\/21\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in South Bend, Indiana, I interviewed Professor Mike Griffin who teaches theology at Holy Cross College here.  He is also quite active with the Catholic Peace Fellowship Group and believes there should be provision for those soldiers who believe in the &#8220;Just War Theory&#8221; to be able to opt out of wars they don&#8217;t believe are, well, &#8220;just.&#8221;  As an example, prior to the recent Iraq War, Pope John Paul II declared a war on Iraq wouldn&#8217;t fit the criteria of a &#8220;Just War.&#8221;  It&#8217;s the Catholic Peace Fellowship position that soldiers already in the military should be able to opt out of fighting in such a war because of &#8220;religious principle&#8221;  &#8212; just like the Amish and Mennonite can be &#8216;conscientious objectors&#8217; because of their non-violent religious principles.  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  Farther west in Beloit, Illinois, we saw the bumper sticker:  &#8220;The Truly Educated &#8212; Never Graduate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in South Bend, Indiana, I interviewed Professor Mike Griffin who teaches theology at Holy Cross College here. He is also quite active with the Catholic Peace Fellowship Group and believes there should be provision for those soldiers who believe <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=285\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}