{"id":1805,"date":"2011-07-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/we-believe-the-entire-law-needs-to-be-overturned-uuca.html"},"modified":"2011-07-03T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T12:00:00","slug":"we-believe-the-entire-law-needs-to-be-overturned-uuca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/we-believe-the-entire-law-needs-to-be-overturned-uuca.html","title":{"rendered":"We believe the entire law needs to be overturned &mdash;UUCA"},"content":{"rendered":"Another Sunday, another religious group against the incarceration machine.\n<p>\nJane Osborn sent this, dated 27 June 2011:\n<blockquote>\n<H2>\nEditorial Statement to Atlanta Journal Constitution\n<\/H2>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uuca.org\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.uuca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/stophb87-150x150.jpg\"><\/a>\nHere is the statement Rev. Anthony David and Rev. Marti Keller sent to\nthe Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial page editor today following\nthe federal court ruling placing an injunction on parts of HB 87. We of\ncourse do not know if it will be published, but wanted to respond in a\ntimely way.\n<p>\nAs Unitarian Universalist ministers, we affirm justice, equity and\ncompassion in human relations. We applaud the federal judge who halted\nseveral parts of Georgia&#8217;s anti-immigration law, but we believe the\nentire law needs to be overturned. It cannot substitute for\ncomprehensive immigration reform at a national level. The law in its\nentirety is unjust, fear-based, and inhumane.\n<p>\nRev. Anthony David\n<p>\nRev. Marti Keller\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uuca.org\/\">\nUnitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta<\/a>\n<\/blockquote>\nHB 87 feeds private prison profit at taxpayer and farmer expense.\nWe don&#8217;t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia:\nspend that tax money on rehabilitation and education instead.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Sunday, another religious group against the incarceration machine. Jane Osborn sent this, dated 27 June 2011: Editorial Statement to Atlanta Journal Constitution Here is the statement Rev. Anthony David and Rev. Marti Keller sent to the Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial page editor today following the federal court ruling placing an injunction on parts of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,1113,40,2,1381,72,1908,178],"tags":[4159,8817,4163,4162,8701,2002,8830,8730,2695,4160,4161,8749],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-community","category-government","category-immigration","category-incarceration","category-religion","category-vlcia","tag-anti-immigration-law","tag-cca","tag-compassion","tag-equity","tag-georgia","tag-hb-87","tag-immigration","tag-incarceration","tag-justice","tag-unitarian-universalist-congregation-of-atlanta","tag-uuca","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-t7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}