{"id":3742,"date":"2009-05-17T07:23:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T12:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2009-05-18T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T16:09:08","slug":"birds-of-a-feather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3742","title":{"rendered":"Birds Of A Feather&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Washington Post&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/16\/AR2009051602250.html?hpid=topnews\"><strong>Look Who&#8217;s in Bed Together on Gay Marriage Fight<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lying on his cot in the Longworth House Office Building in the small of the night, Jason Chaffetz had a scary dream: The conservative Republican from Utah had beaten the odds, defeated an incumbent and made it to Washington, only to end up by some bizarre twist of events arm-in-arm with Marion Barry, the crack-smoking laughingstock former mayor of the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Oh man, if I had run a campaign saying I&#8217;d be working closely with Marion Barry, I don&#8217;t know that I would have been elected,&quot; Chaffetz says<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mirror, mirror on the wall&#8230;&nbsp; Sure you&#8217;d have been elected Jason.&nbsp; Your voters are cut from the same cloth you are&#8230;the same bolt of cloth Washington&#8217;s former Mayor For Life was cut from.&nbsp; Barry wasn&#8217;t our ally, we were his tools&#8230;his useful stepping stones to political power.&nbsp; Just like we are to you.&nbsp; And to your voters, we&#8217;re convenient scapegoats for every cheapshit failure of personal character.&nbsp; We give them someone to blame for how lousy their lives are, how dead and rotten their conscience is, so they don&#8217;t have to blame themselves.&nbsp; Useful tools Jason&#8230;that&#8217;s what gay people are.&nbsp; To Barry.&nbsp; To you.&nbsp; To your constituents.&nbsp; Tools.&nbsp; Nothing more.&nbsp; Look in Barry&#8217;s empty smiling eyes Jason, and see yourself.\n<\/p>\n<p>So go ahead and smoke yourself some crack Jason.&nbsp; It won&#8217;t matter.&nbsp; Smoke it right in church if you like.&nbsp; As long as you&#8217;re willing to put a knife in the hearts of loving, devoted same sex couples you&#8217;ll still be a Mormon in good standing.&nbsp; Because nothing matters more then the war against The Homosexual, not even the resurrection.&nbsp; You could spit in Christ&#8217;s face on Judgment Day and as long as you&#8217;ve left a trail of destruction in the lives of gay and lesbian people you&#8217;ll make it to heaven on a red carpet.&nbsp; Oh wait&#8230;Mormons think they get to be gods in the afterlife don&#8217;t they&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Washington Post&#8230; Look Who&#8217;s in Bed Together on Gay Marriage Fight Lying on his cot in the Longworth House Office Building in the small of the night, Jason Chaffetz had a scary dream: The conservative Republican from Utah had beaten the odds, defeated an incumbent and made it to Washington, only to end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[116,16,118,20,90,46],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-joseph-smiths-talking-hat","tag-marriage","tag-republican-america","tag-the-american-gutter","tag-the-human-gutter","tag-the-kultar-kampf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742","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=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}