{"id":367,"date":"2006-10-02T07:51:47","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T12:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/367"},"modified":"2006-10-02T08:01:11","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T13:01:11","slug":"what-the-closet-buys-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/367","title":{"rendered":"What The Closet Buys You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Mark Foley, co-author of the Internet Child Protection Act, supported by the National Center For Missing and Exploited  Children, is discovered having Internet Chat Room Sex with a 16 year old former congressional page boy.&nbsp; At one time he had an 84 percent rating from the Christian Coalition.&nbsp; He&#8217;d voted for the Defense Of Marriage Act, refused to commit to repealing Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell, and after being outed by a reporter for the Advocate, offered lukewarm opposition to the Federal Marriage Amendment.&nbsp; He consistently refused to acknowledge his sexual orientation, even as it was an open secret on Capital Hill.&nbsp; But in the world of republican virtue and morals, being homosexual is alright, so long as you&#8217;re ashamed of it, so long as you keep your sexuality in the shadows, in the gutter, where they think it belongs&#8230;<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">And so it goes&#8230;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"569\" height=\"500\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/political_cartoons\/thats_immoral.jpg\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mark Foley, co-author of the Internet Child Protection Act, supported by the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children, is discovered having Internet Chat Room Sex with a 16 year old former congressional page boy.&nbsp; At one time he had an 84 percent rating from the Christian Coalition.&nbsp; He&#8217;d voted for the Defense Of [&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":[19,6,12],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-jackass-chronicles","tag-the-right-wing-mindset","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}