{"id":1335,"date":"2008-05-22T15:33:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T20:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1335"},"modified":"2008-05-22T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T20:33:02","slug":"we-were-only-following-ordersorders-we-heartily-approved-of-naturallybut-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1335","title":{"rendered":"We Were Only Following Orders&#8230;Orders We Heartily Approved Of Naturally&#8230;But Orders&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Dan Savage over at SLOG&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/2008\/05\/issuing_marriage_licenses_to_gay_couples\"><strong> \t        Issuing Marriage Licenses to Gay Couples the Moral Equivalent of Gassing Jews<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So says Save California, an anti-gay group that is calling asking it supporters to call county clerks and demand that they refuse to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. From their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savecalifornia.com\/getactive\/alertmain.php?alid=201\">website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ask your county clerk <strong>if they were a Nazi officer during WWII and had been ordered to gas the Jews<\/strong>, would they? At the Nuremberg trials, they would have been convicted of murder for following this immoral order.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ask yourself if any of the morally righteous folks over at Save California would have refused to sign an order sending a gay man to the concentration camps.&nbsp; Go ahead.&nbsp; Try not to laugh.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dan Savage over at SLOG&#8230; Issuing Marriage Licenses to Gay Couples the Moral Equivalent of Gassing Jews So says Save California, an anti-gay group that is calling asking it supporters to call county clerks and demand that they refuse to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. From their website: Ask your county clerk if [&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":[68,32,16,46,60],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-hate","tag-marriage","tag-the-kultar-kampf","tag-the-noise-machine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","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=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}