{"id":5621,"date":"2012-05-02T08:19:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T13:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=5621"},"modified":"2012-05-02T08:20:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T13:20:44","slug":"the-valiant-struggle-to-protect-whiteness-from-all-the-scary-shadows-everywhere-you-look-and-also-the-monster-under-the-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/5621","title":{"rendered":"The Valiant Struggle To Protect Whiteness From All The Scary Shadows Everywhere You Look, And Also The Monster Under The Bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, <a href=\"http:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/wife-of-amendment-one-sponsor-he-wrote.html\">via Joe. My God<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to poll workers and a freelance journalist who was present,  the wife of the author of North Carolina&#8217;s Amendment One says that her  husband <a href=\"http:\/\/yesweeklyblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/racialized-remark-about-marriage.html\">wrote the bill<\/a> to &#8220;protect Caucasians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chad Nance, a Winston-Salem freelance journalist who is currently  active in electoral campaigning, says poll workers outside the early  voting site at the Forsyth County Government Center in downtown  Winston-Salem reported to him that the wife of NC Sen. Peter Brunstetter  remarked today that her husband sponsored legislation to put the  marriage amendment on the primary ballot &ldquo;to protect the Caucasian  race.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I read that headline I assumed it would be some crackpot bullshit about the birth rate. \u00a0 But no. \u00a0 The article goes on to quote her saying that&#8230;somehow&#8230;protecting the Caucasians from same-sex marriage involves protecting their state constitution from activist judges.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not sure how opposing same-sex marriage protects Caucasians don&#8217;t worry&#8230;it doesn&#8217;t have to make sense to you. \u00a0 To the bigot everything is about the war against the hated other, whether it&#8217;s gays, people of color, other religions, people who speak funny languages&#8230;whomever. \u00a0 They have a lot of racism down there and I&#8217;m sure somehow this makes sense to all of them. \u00a0 Opposing same-sex marriage is about protecting the white race. \u00a0 Probably opposing daylight savings time is too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, via Joe. My God&#8230; According to poll workers and a freelance journalist who was present, the wife of the author of North Carolina&#8217;s Amendment One says that her husband wrote the bill to &#8220;protect Caucasians.&#8221; Chad Nance, a Winston-Salem freelance journalist who is currently active in electoral campaigning, says poll workers outside the [&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":[32,118,20,19],"class_list":["post-5621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-hate","tag-republican-america","tag-the-american-gutter","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621","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=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}