{"id":5410,"date":"2012-01-28T14:37:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T19:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2012-01-28T14:37:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T19:37:04","slug":"our-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/5410","title":{"rendered":"Our Excuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Tennessee they&#8217;re now considering two bills that would do little more then put another knife into the hearts of gay kids in the Tennessee public school system. The Don&#8217;t Say Gay bill is back again, along with another, even more insidious if that&#8217;s possible, which would allow a religious exception to the current anti-bullying codes.  A perfect excuse then, for kids to torment their gay peers to death under the guise of freedom of religion.  If you can&#8217;t make gay kids hate themselves to death, then obviously your religion is being discriminated against&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/political_cartoons\/our_excuse-sm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tennessee they&#8217;re now considering two bills that would do little more then put another knife into the hearts of gay kids in the Tennessee public school system. The Don&#8217;t Say Gay bill is back again, along with another, even more insidious if that&#8217;s possible, which would allow a religious exception to the current anti-bullying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,65],"tags":[14,18,21,20,26,90,46],"class_list":["post-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics","category-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-gay-youth","tag-gratuitous-anti-gay-hate","tag-the-abyss","tag-the-american-gutter","tag-the-bully-mindset","tag-the-human-gutter","tag-the-kultar-kampf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","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=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}