{"id":7693,"date":"2010-03-09T09:54:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7693"},"modified":"2010-03-09T09:54:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:54:36","slug":"alcoholic-wants-religion-free-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/alcoholic-wants-religion-free-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcoholic wants religion free treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/manitoba\/story\/2010\/03\/08\/man-religion-addictions-spirituality.html?ref=rss\" target=\"_blank\">CBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Winnipeg man who has struggled with alcoholism for decades says he has filed a complaint with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission over the lack of a treatment program that&#8217;s free of religious or spiritual elements.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Johnstone said he has battled alcoholism for 40 years and can&#8217;t find a treatment program that doesn&#8217;t rely on religion or spirituality as part of the recovery process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I should not be forced to participate in someone else&#8217;s religious beliefs. I shouldn&#8217;t have to add to mine,&#8221; said Johnstone, who added he has been an alcoholic for 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have my own beliefs and I&#8217;m happy with them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rather than yet another frivolously idiotic complaint to a human rights commission, perhaps Johnstone should exercise his human right to continue being an alcoholic &#8211; a consequence, one presumes, of his happiness inducing beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the CBC: A Winnipeg man who has struggled with alcoholism for decades says he has filed a complaint with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission over the lack of a treatment program that&#8217;s free of religious or spiritual elements. Rob &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/alcoholic-wants-religion-free-treatment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[2169,2225],"class_list":["post-7693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-correctness","tag-human-rights","tag-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}