{"id":183196,"date":"2015-01-29T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/29\/the-best-pass-the-popcorn-moment-of-the-year-so-far\/"},"modified":"2015-01-29T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T01:05:00","slug":"the-best-pass-the-popcorn-moment-of-the-year-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/29\/the-best-pass-the-popcorn-moment-of-the-year-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best &#8220;Pass the Popcorn&#8221; Moment of the Year so Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 210px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/i990.photobucket.com\/albums\/af27\/msaroff\/drama.gif\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pass the Popcorn<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The only gay state legislator in Alabama, State Rep. Patricia Todd (D-Birmingham), has just announced that her fellow representatives had better walk the &#8220;family values&#8221; walk if they talk the &#8220;family values talk&#8221;, and that she will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/01\/27\/gay_alabama_legislator_threatens_to_expose_colleagues_infidelities_if_they_preach_family_values\/\">publicly out the philanderers in the state house<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">State Rep. Patricia Todd, Alabama\u2019s only openly gay legislator, is threatening to play hardball in the fight over marriage equality in her state. Over the weekend, Todd warned her colleagues who oppose same-sex marriage that they\u2019d better be careful about the way they defend \u201ctraditional\u201d marriage, and about the way they conduct their own lives: according to the Times Daily, the representative claimed she\u2019s prepared to out lawmakers rumored to have had extramarital affairs, but who proclaim to defend family values.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not stand by and allow legislators to talk about \u2018family values\u2019 when they have affairs, and I know of many who are and have,\u201d Todd posted on Facebook over the weekend. \u201cI will call our elected officials who want to hide in the closet out.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been this amused about the juxtaposition of marital infidelity and politics since Larry Flynt offered a bounty for cheating Congress critters during the height the attempted putsch against Clinton in 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pass the Popcorn The only gay state legislator in Alabama, State Rep. Patricia Todd (D-Birmingham), has just announced that her fellow representatives had better walk the &#8220;family values&#8221; walk if they talk the &#8220;family values talk&#8221;, and that she will publicly out the philanderers in the state house: State Rep. Patricia Todd, Alabama\u2019s only openly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,1030,978,1019,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-lgbtq","category-politics","category-schadenfreude","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}