{"id":194,"date":"2003-11-21T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2003-11-21T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/one_commissioner_gets_it\/"},"modified":"2003-11-21T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2003-11-21T16:40:09","slug":"one_commissioner_gets_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/one_commissioner_gets_it\/","title":{"rendered":"One Commissioner Gets It"},"content":{"rendered":"

. . . in voting against the “God resolution”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Before the last vote on the resolution, as written by the Greene County Commission, Commissioner Jeff McCall read a statement.
\nHe paused, then explained why he was about to vote no, at times stopping to choke back tears.
\nYes, he believed that God was the foundation of America’s heritage.
\n“God is our creator,” he said. “God is and always will be.
\n“There is nothing I can do, or that we collectively can do, that will elevate God to any higher stature than he already has.”
\nThus, McCall didn’t think the resolution was necessary. By considering it, the commission was attempting to address a problem in America with governmental action, he said, a problem more appropriately a matter of individual responsibility.
\nHe continued, “If there is a danger of our nation forgetting and our children never knowing that God is our foundation, it will be because we fail as children of God to share his love with our community as we should, and because we fail as parents to teach our children about God and introduce them to his son, Jesus.
\n“I can say with little hesitation that my children will never read the minutes of this county commission to see what resolutions did or did not pass. But they will read, day in and day out, how their father acts, who he puts his faith in, and whether or not he loves his neighbor.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Exactly. God writes his law in our hearts, not in our legal codes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. . . in voting against the “God resolution”: Before the last vote on the resolution, as written by the Greene County Commission, Commissioner Jeff McCall read a statement. He paused, then explained why he was about to vote no, at times stopping to choke back tears. Yes, he believed that God was the foundation […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}