{"id":14473,"date":"2026-07-24T19:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14473"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:03:16","slug":"the-judgements-we-all-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14473","title":{"rendered":"The Judgements We All Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lifted from the repost of a friend here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14474\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/hunterbidenwhosgay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/hunterbidenwhosgay.jpg 512w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/hunterbidenwhosgay-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the hypocrisy, not the sexual orientation. And not the closetedness. Lots of basically decent people stay closeted for reasons of their own, ranging from family issues, and religious struggles to legitimate fears for their lives. I&#8217;ve known a few. Be careful who you judge for being closeted.<\/p>\n<p>That said&#8230;these guys are creeps. It&#8217;s okay to judge someone for being a creep. And if they&#8217;re secretly enjoying the bodies of other men, let alone the hard work LGBT people have contributed to make this a better world, while actively supporting hate mongers, then they&#8217;re also thieves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifted from the repost of a friend here&#8230; It&#8217;s the hypocrisy, not the sexual orientation. And not the closetedness. Lots of basically decent people stay closeted for reasons of their own, ranging from family issues, and religious struggles to legitimate fears for their lives. I&#8217;ve known a few. Be careful who you judge for being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,65],"tags":[366,178,20],"class_list":["post-14473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-gay-republicans","tag-tales-of-the-closet","tag-the-american-gutter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14473","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=14473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14475,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14473\/revisions\/14475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}