{"id":6777,"date":"2013-01-09T12:25:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=6777"},"modified":"2013-01-09T12:25:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T17:25:21","slug":"dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/6777","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This flitted across my Facebook stream a while ago&#8230;I really wish I had the original because I&#8217;d caption it differently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dangerous_love.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6778\" title=\"dangerous_love\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dangerous_love.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dangerous_love.jpg 500w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dangerous_love-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Having had and witnessed so many arguments with anti-gay bigots who say that marriage isn&#8217;t about love, I&#8217;m pretty sure this would fail miserably at getting the point across. \u00a0 You simply can&#8217;t make that point with the hard core bigot, they just don&#8217;t get that &#8220;love&#8221; stuff to begin with, or to any degree they do they regard it with contempt as a sign of weakness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is a good argument to make with everyone else who is open to hearing to our stories and seeing our shared humanity. \u00a0 But there&#8217;s a another one. \u00a0 I&#8217;d caption the picture above something like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In a world bleeding itself to death with violence and war, how rational are those<br \/>\nwho warn that it is dangerous to allow men to love other men?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This flitted across my Facebook stream a while ago&#8230;I really wish I had the original because I&#8217;d caption it differently&#8230; Having had and witnessed so many arguments with anti-gay bigots who say that marriage isn&#8217;t about love, I&#8217;m pretty sure this would fail miserably at getting the point across. \u00a0 You simply can&#8217;t make that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[99,12],"class_list":["post-6777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-the-human-status","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777","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=6777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}