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  {
    "id": "exodus-app-gay-cure-2011",
    "title": "The Exodus App – Pulled from App Store for being \"Gay Cure\"",
    "url": "https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2011/exodus-app--pulled-app-store/",
    "published": "2011-03-23",
    "topics": ["LGBTQ+", "homosexuality"],
    "summary": "Responding to criticism of an Exodus International app promoted as a ‘gay cure,’ Geerling argues that homosexuality should be judged through a Catholic moral framework.",
    "excerpt": "A genetic predisposition towards homosexuality does not make homosexuality a 'good' or a 'right,' or even 'okay' for some people.",
    "excerpt_context": "Geerling's own conclusion in a post discussing homosexuality and the Exodus International app.",
    "source_notice": "The page displays a warning that it is more than ten years old and that some material may be outdated or incorrect.",
    "archive_lookup": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2011/exodus-app--pulled-app-store/",
    "review_status": "archive search checked; no snapshot verified",
    "last_checked": "2026-09-26"
  },
  {
    "id": "freedom-from-choice-2011",
    "title": "Freedom from Choice (Reasons to be Catholic)",
    "url": "https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2011/freedom-choice-reasons-be-cath/",
    "published": "2011-11-14",
    "topics": ["reproductive rights", "abortion", "women"],
    "summary": "Uses abortion to argue that limits on personal choices can create better lives. It presents women facing an unwanted pregnancy as choosing between abortion and continuing the pregnancy, including through adoption or parenting.",
    "excerpt": "I think I'd say a lot of things different if writing this post today! Age does that to you :)",
    "excerpt_context": "A later author update displayed above the original post, which does not specify what he would change.",
    "author_update": "More than a decade after publication, Geerling added a note saying he would write many things differently, without identifying which claims he would change.",
    "source_notice": "The page displays a warning that it is more than ten years old and that some material may be outdated or incorrect.",
    "archive_lookup": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2011/freedom-choice-reasons-be-cath/",
    "review_status": "archive search checked; no snapshot verified",
    "last_checked": "2026-09-26"
  },
  {
    "id": "contraception-abortion-hhs-2012",
    "title": "Contraception, Abortion, and the HHS Mandate",
    "url": "https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2012/changes-nothing-contraception/",
    "published": "2012-10-05",
    "topics": ["reproductive rights", "contraception", "abortion", "women"],
    "summary": "Argues from Catholic teaching against artificial contraception and discusses contraception, abortion, and family planning.",
    "excerpt": "Catholics don't actually care whether free contraceptives reduce abortion rates and unwanted pregnancies.",
    "excerpt_context": "Geerling's explanation of why, in his account, evidence about those outcomes would not change Catholic teaching on contraception.",
    "source_notice": "The page displays a warning that it is more than ten years old and that some material may be outdated or incorrect.",
    "archive_lookup": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2012/changes-nothing-contraception/",
    "review_status": "archive search checked; no snapshot verified",
    "last_checked": "2026-09-26"
  },
  {
    "id": "what-were-they-thinking-2013",
    "title": "What were they thinking?",
    "url": "https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2013/what-were-they-thinking/",
    "published": "2013-01-24",
    "topics": ["reproductive rights", "abortion", "women", "race"],
    "summary": "Criticizes a Center for Reproductive Rights video. Geerling calls a man celebrating abortion rights ‘sexist and anti-feminine’ and speculates about his motives, race, and drinking.",
    "excerpt": "As if that's bad enough, a man celebrating a \"women's right to abortion\" is about the most sexist and anti-feminine thing I can think of.",
    "excerpt_context": "Geerling's description of the man featured in the Center for Reproductive Rights video.",
    "source_notice": "The page displays a warning that it is more than ten years old and that some material may be outdated or incorrect.",
    "archive_lookup": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2013/what-were-they-thinking/",
    "archive_snapshot_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260922080244/https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2013/what-were-they-thinking/",
    "archive_snapshot_timestamp": "2026-09-22T08:02:44Z",
    "review_status": "latest Wayback snapshot verified",
    "last_checked": "2026-09-26"
  }
]