{"id":184511,"date":"2012-04-04T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/04\/04\/well-heres-something-that-you-do-not-see-every-day\/"},"modified":"2012-04-04T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T23:54:00","slug":"well-heres-something-that-you-do-not-see-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/04\/04\/well-heres-something-that-you-do-not-see-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, Here&#8217;s Something that You Do Not See Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A business r<a href=\"http:\/\/brucegodfrey.com\/2012\/04\/open-letter-to-national-organization-for-marriage-requesting-boycott-of-law-office-of-bruce-godfrey\/\">equesting that they be boycotted<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Open Letter to National Organization for Marriage Requesting Boycott of Law Office of Bruce Godfrey<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brucegodfrey.com\/2012\/04\/open-letter-to-national-organization-for-marriage-requesting-boycott-of-law-office-of-bruce-godfrey\/Open-Letter-to-NOM.pdf\">Original Letter<\/a><br \/>3 April 2012<br \/>National Organization for Marriage<br \/>Open Letter<br \/>By facsimile: (888) 894-3604<br \/>Re: Request to Join Boycott List<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Dear Madam or Sir:<\/p>\n<p>I write your organization to request that the Law Office of Bruce  Godfrey be placed on the boycott list for corporate and business  advocates for the recognition of lawful civil same-sex marriage. I would  be most grateful for recognition of my small law office as an opponent  of your cause in Maryland as you have recognized companies such as  Starbucks. While Maryland attorney ethics rules place strict prohibitions on attorney solicitations of prospective clients for hire,  no ethics rules prohibit an attorney from asking to join a boycott \u2013 as a  <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">target<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Godfrey has been a loud and notorious advocate of lawful civil  same-sex marriage recognition in his home state of Maryland for many  years.  His unapologetic advocacy of equal protection principles and of  the equal rights amendment of the Maryland Declaration of Rights  advocacy has cost him friendships and business relationships.  Godfrey  is an inveterate opponent of your cause and a strong supporter of your  most implacable legislative foes in the Maryland State House and General  Assembly.   He earned your boycott through loud commentary on this issue  as a straight ally of equal protection of the laws on Facebook alone,  and will continue to advocate for equal protection of the laws in  Maryland per his Maryland Attorney Oath.<\/p>\n<p>It was said of the late actor Paul Newman that his proudest life  achievement was being placed on the infamous \u201cenemies short list\u201d of  President Nixon during the Watergate era.  If NOM requires a certain  amount of achievement in opposition to your aims to merit a boycott,  please receive this as a request for the clarification of your boycott  criteria so that the Law Office of Bruce Godfrey may, through diligence  and honest effort, merit that honor.  Please target Bruce Godfrey for  boycott; he intends to earn it.<\/p>\n<p>Very truly yours,<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Godfrey, Attorney (MD\/DC)<br \/>Attorney at Law<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kewl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A business requesting that they be boycotted: Open Letter to National Organization for Marriage Requesting Boycott of Law Office of Bruce Godfrey Original Letter3 April 2012National Organization for MarriageOpen LetterBy facsimile: (888) 894-3604Re: Request to Join Boycott List Dear Madam or Sir: I write your organization to request that the Law Office of Bruce Godfrey &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,971,972,1030],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-civil-rights","category-justice","category-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184511"}],"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=184511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}