{"id":1286,"date":"2008-04-23T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T16:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1286"},"modified":"2008-04-23T11:08:33","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T16:08:33","slug":"marriage-iserwhatever-it-needs-to-be-to-exclude-the-gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1286","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Is&#8230;Er&#8230;Whatever It Needs To Be To Exclude The Gays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via SLOG&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/2008\/04\/crickets\">Crickets<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"postedBy\">posted by  \t\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/Author?oid=259\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\tDan Savage \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a> \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/span>  \t\t\t\ton  \t\t\t\t<span class=\"postTime\">April 23<\/span>  \t\t\t\t\tat <span class=\"postTime\"> 8:47 AM<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"postbody\">\n<p>Slog reader Price makes a good point about the FLDS saga&mdash;DNA tests to determine whose kids are whose are underway&mdash;in Eldorado, Texas. These polygamists have been all over cable news and the front pages of American newspapers for weeks now. Says Price&hellip;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where&rsquo;s the outrage from the &ldquo;marriage should be between one man and one woman&rdquo; crowd about this nonsense in Eldorado? You&rsquo;d think they would be up in arms about this. Aren&rsquo;t these people DESTROYING all marraige for normal straight couples<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When I was in South Carolina before that state&rsquo;s primary for <em>Real Time with Bill Maher<\/em>, I asked a religious conservative&mdash;a supporter of Mike Huckabee&mdash;who was the bigger sinner: a gay man married to one man or a polygamist married to a hundred women. He didn&rsquo;t even hesitate: <strong>the gay man<\/strong>. You hear very little from the one-man-and-one-woman shriekers for the same reason you heard so little from them during the decades straight people spent redefining marriage for themselves. After straight people redefined marriage to a point that it no longer made any logical sense to exclude same-sex couples from the institution&rsquo;s rights and responsibilities, suddenly marriage had to be defended from the gays. Activists that want to &ldquo;save marriage&rdquo; have never been motivated by what they&rsquo;re for (one man and one woman) but what they&rsquo;re against (gay sex, love, desire, etc.).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This has been another edition of <em>What Dan Savage Said.<\/em>&nbsp; Can we stop talking about the sincerely held religious beliefs of the anti-gay opposition now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via SLOG&#8230; Crickets posted by Dan Savage on April 23 at 8:47 AM Slog reader Price makes a good point about the FLDS saga&mdash;DNA tests to determine whose kids are whose are underway&mdash;in Eldorado, Texas. These polygamists have been all over cable news and the front pages of American newspapers for weeks now. Says Price&hellip; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,46,6],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marriage","tag-the-kultar-kampf","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}