{"id":9266,"date":"2016-09-14T15:21:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=9266"},"modified":"2016-09-14T15:21:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:21:50","slug":"some-of-my-best-friends-are-abominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/9266","title":{"rendered":"Some Of My Best Friends Are Abominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Le Dance Pathetique<\/em>&#8230;as choreographed by \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2016\/09\/14\/im-not-going-to-certify-sin-social-security-worker-refuses-to-watch-lgbt-training-video\/\">Social Security Administration employee David Hall<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;In support of an inclusive work environment, as well as exemplary customer service, the Social Security Administration recently announced a diversity and inclusion training on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community to our employees&#8230;The training includes a brief session on tips for increasing cultural awareness in a diverse and inclusive environment.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Un&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For Hall, that premise was too sinful. The 42-year-old, who identifies as Christian, said he does not believe God would have wanted him to watch the video.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Deux&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Signing a statement he had watched such a video, moreover, was equal to endorsing &#8220;an abomination,&#8221; he told WCIA.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Trois&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to certify sin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Quatre&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He told WCIA during an interview that the video was propaganda&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Cinq&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hall added he has LGBT friends.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Le Curtian&#8230;Applaus a vous&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Dance Pathetique&#8230;as choreographed by \u00a0Social Security Administration employee David Hall&#8230; &ldquo;In support of an inclusive work environment, as well as exemplary customer service, the Social Security Administration recently announced a diversity and inclusion training on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community to our employees&#8230;The training includes a brief session on tips for [&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":[18,154,46],"class_list":["post-9266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-gratuitous-anti-gay-hate","tag-homophobia","tag-the-kultar-kampf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266","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=9266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}