{"id":7621,"date":"2014-01-17T12:17:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T17:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=7621"},"modified":"2014-01-18T04:08:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T09:08:29","slug":"im-a-reasonable-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/7621","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m A Reasonable Man&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all&#8230;I only want to keep the kids safe&#8230;from your kind&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/putin-gays-will-be-safe-at-olympics-if-they-leave-kids-alone\/2014\/01\/17\/e6f8c47e-7f7d-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html\">Putin: Gay people will be safe at Olympics if they \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcleave kids alone&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Putin met with a group of volunteers in the Olympic mountain venue at Krasnaya Polyana on Friday to wish them success at the Games. During a question-and-answer session, one volunteer asked him about Russia&#8217;s attitudes toward gays, a subject that has provoked worldwide controversy, and Putin offered what was apparently meant to be a reassuring answer for visitors to the Olympics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How the homophobe, in trying to sound reasonable, keeps showing only their knuckle dragging prejudices. \u00a0 If &#8220;alone&#8221; means &#8220;not sexually molest&#8221; then why of course gays should leave kids alone. Heterosexuals should also leave kids alone. \u00a0 Everybody should leave kids alone. \u00a0 And the law should punish people who don&#8217;t. \u00a0 So why are you singling out gay people?<\/p>\n<p>Because the homophobe thinks (or just wants everyone else to think) that to be gay is to be a sexual predator, and especially to be a molester of children. \u00a0 But it&#8217;s more than that. \u00a0 &#8220;Alone&#8221; means &#8220;Don&#8217;t Try To Turn Kids Gay&#8221;, because homosexuals don&#8217;t reproduce, they recruit. \u00a0 Viewed that way, when gay people simply their lives openly and proudly that is recruitment. \u00a0 When teachers and scientists refute the myths, lies and superstitions about homosexuality and teach science based facts about sex and sexual orientation, that is recruitment. \u00a0 When artists create works that speak honestly to the lives of gay people, to the sanctity of their love, to the beauty of their desire, that is recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>The way you leave kids alone is you silence the teachers, burn the books, burn the works of art, imprison the scientists and the artists if they won&#8217;t shut up and force homosexuals into the closet by acts of law, or by acts of terror in the streets. \u00a0 And the homophobe will do all of this with a clear conscience telling them they had to in order to protect the kids, not their mindless blood thirsty prejudices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all&#8230;I only want to keep the kids safe&#8230;from your kind&#8230; Putin: Gay people will be safe at Olympics if they \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcleave kids alone&#8217; Putin met with a group of volunteers in the Olympic mountain venue at Krasnaya Polyana on Friday to wish them success at the Games. During a question-and-answer session, one volunteer asked [&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":[41,139,90],"class_list":["post-7621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-prejudice","tag-the-bigot-mindset","tag-the-human-gutter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621","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=7621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}