{"id":36161,"date":"2012-02-03T09:10:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=36161"},"modified":"2012-02-20T06:47:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T13:47:28","slug":"gay-rights-group-to-protest-pastors-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/02\/gay-rights-group-to-protest-pastors-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay-rights group to protest pastor\u2019s comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36162\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36162\" title=\"Smothermon, Steve\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Smothermon-Steve.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Smothermon\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Smothermon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A gay-rights organization plans to protest on Sunday in front of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacychurchnm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Legacy Church<\/a> in Albuquerque in response to comments Pastor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacychurchnm.com\/index.cfm\/pageID\/1624\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Smothermon<\/a> made recently to NMPolitics.net.<\/p>\n<p>KOAT-TV in Albuquerque has the goods on the protest. Watch the station\u2019s report by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koat.com\/video\/30367452\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smothermon was complaining to NMPolitics.net about Gov. Susana Martinez appointing a gay man to the Public Regulation Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a governor who looked me in the eye personally and said she\u2019s socially conservative, she believes that marriage is between one man and one woman, who said she wouldn\u2019t espouse the homosexual agenda, I think this goes against that,\u201d Smothermon told NMPolitics.net. \u201c\u2026 These aren\u2019t the people we voted for you to appoint. We voted for you to appoint people who think like we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full NMPolitics.net article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/01\/like-christie-martinez-appointed-gay-man-to-office\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gay-rights organization plans to protest on Sunday in front of Legacy Church in Albuquerque in response to comments Pastor Steve Smothermon made recently to NMPolitics.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[233,217,177,107,269],"class_list":["post-36161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-gay-and-lesbian-issues","tag-prc","tag-religion","tag-roundhouse","tag-steve-smothermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}