{"id":3792,"date":"2009-06-25T07:57:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T12:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2009-06-25T07:58:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T12:58:41","slug":"heroes-of-the-culture-war-721%e2%80%a6collect-the-entire-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3792","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Of The Culture War #721\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Collect The Entire Series!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Jim Burroway remarked last night on Facebook, I had no idea &quot;Hiking the Appalachian Trail&quot; meant that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Sanford.&nbsp; Republican.&nbsp; Conservative.&nbsp; Sexual moralist.&nbsp; Fierce defender of Traditional Marriage.&nbsp; Protecting innocent children from the homosexual agenda.&nbsp; Upholding his state&#8217;s reputation as a place decent normal families can come visit&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>Adulterer&hellip;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"735\" height=\"171\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/images\/mark_sanford_on_civil_rights.PNG\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link: S.C. Governor demands personnel and procedure changes in tourism fracas\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.q-notes.com\/480\/sc-governor-demands-personnel-and-procedure-changes-in-tourism-fracas\/\">S.C. Governor demands personnel and procedure changes in tourism fracas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford learned that his state was being advertised as a gay tourism destination, he ordered a Cabinet-level department head &ldquo;to do the right thing personnel-wise or process-wise to ensure this does not happen again,&rdquo; Sanford&rsquo;s spokesman Joel Sawyer told <em>Q-Notes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sanford was reacting to U.S. media reports that a subway poster mounted in London, England, during Gay Pride week was announcing, &ldquo;South Carolina is so gay.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A state employee who approved the ads was called to a meeting with management and resigned, according to Marion Edmonds, spokesman for the state&rsquo;s Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism (PRT).<\/p>\n<p>If the employee broke any rule in the conduct of her job, it was apparently an unwritten one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Governor Sanford mandated that PRT director Chad Prosser will from now on have to personally sign off on all advertising campaigns, Sawyer said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Drum roll please&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetandd.com\/articles\/2009\/06\/24\/news\/doc4a427256cdb32459839129.txt\">Sanford admits to affair<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>S.C. Governor Mark Sanford has admitted to being unfaithful to his wife, and stated in his press conference at 2:30 p.m. that this was the reason he was in Argentina for Father&#8217;s Day instead of at home with his family.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to hear one more word about how horrible it is that teh gays hold their parades every year on Father&#8217;s Day.&nbsp; Oh&#8230;and his mistress is also married&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Seemingly fighting tears at times, he said the situation holds a certain irony. He said his mistress is also married and has two children.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Good thing we have people like you keeping children safe from all those same-sex households, so they won&#8217;t grow up with a twisted set of values.<\/p>\n<p>Another day&#8230;another anti-gay culture warrior pops out of the philanderer closet. So&#8230;&quot;I believe in traditional marriage&quot; is a euphemism for &quot;I&#8217;m cheating on my spouse&quot; is it?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Jim Burroway remarked last night on Facebook, I had no idea &quot;Hiking the Appalachian Trail&quot; meant that&#8230; Mark Sanford.&nbsp; Republican.&nbsp; Conservative.&nbsp; Sexual moralist.&nbsp; Fierce defender of Traditional Marriage.&nbsp; Protecting innocent children from the homosexual agenda.&nbsp; Upholding his state&#8217;s reputation as a place decent normal families can come visit&#8230; Adulterer&hellip; S.C. Governor demands personnel and [&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":[16,118,19,46],"class_list":["post-3792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-marriage","tag-republican-america","tag-the-jackass-chronicles","tag-the-kultar-kampf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792","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=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}