{"id":505,"date":"2007-01-03T19:39:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T00:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/505"},"modified":"2007-01-03T19:56:36","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T00:56:36","slug":"jackass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/505","title":{"rendered":"Jackass"},"content":{"rendered":"

He may be on the conservative movement’s shit list these days, but Andrew Sullivan is still its useful idiot…\n<\/p>\n

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I doubt whether Massachusetts will forgo the honor of being the first state to grant gay couples legal equality with their straight peers. But there’s one way to find out. Let’s debate and campaign. The national gay groups, whose record on marriage has been spotty at best, need to make this the first priority of the national movement. Winning a democratic vote on marriage is a huge opportunity – and well within our grasp. We have the arguments. We have the evidence. Now let’s have the vote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We have the arguments do we?  Well…one argument we won’t have I guess is that no civilized nation puts the human rights of minorities up for popular vote.  Can someone tell me when reason ever made a dent in the mindset of bigots?  It wasn’t the voters who swept away the segregation laws in America, it was the hated Warren Court. \n<\/p>\n

The Conservative Soul is it?  Well of course.  Conservatives never were very big on the concept of liberty and justice for all were they…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He may be on the conservative movement’s shit list these days, but Andrew Sullivan is still its useful idiot… I doubt whether Massachusetts will forgo the honor of being the first state to grant gay couples legal equality with their straight peers. But there’s one way to find out. Let’s debate and campaign. The national […]<\/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":[16,19],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marriage","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}