{"id":186082,"date":"2014-05-17T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/17\/profiles-in-cowardice\/"},"modified":"2014-05-17T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T00:54:00","slug":"profiles-in-cowardice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/17\/profiles-in-cowardice\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiles in Cowardice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/sLRB42N.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/sLRB42N.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Because just screams Democratic Judicial Nominee<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s nominee for the district judge in the 11<sup>th<\/sup> circuit, (specifically, the noreth Georgia bench) Michael Boggs, has encountered a lot of resistance from Senate Democrats for his antediluvian attitudes on basically everything.<\/p>\n<p>The latest revelation is that he <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/michael-boggs-flyer-anti-gay-campaign\">vowed to oppose gays in the Boy Scouts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">New revelations could create more trouble for President Barack Obama&#8217;s embattled judicial nominee Michael Boggs.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Boggs, currently a state appeals court judge, apparently ran a staunchly anti-gay campaign for the Georgia state House in 2000. In a flyer from his campaign, obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boggs vowed: &#8220;I oppose same sex marriages, I oppose homosexual Boy Scout leaders, and I support voluntary prayer in schools.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">He billed himself as &#8220;a conservative Democrat with conservative values&#8221; who&#8217;s running on &#8220;Christian values,&#8221; and suggested he&#8217;d have more power and influence as a Democrat given that Democrats were in control of the majority.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His voting record on LGBT rights, abortion, the Confederate flag, etc. is all far right, but somehow or other, Obama saw fit to nominate him for a lifetime position on the court.<\/p>\n<p>Un-Dirtyword-Believable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because just screams Democratic Judicial Nominee Obama&#8217;s nominee for the district judge in the 11th circuit, (specifically, the noreth Georgia bench) Michael Boggs, has encountered a lot of resistance from Senate Democrats for his antediluvian attitudes on basically everything. The latest revelation is that he vowed to oppose gays in the Boy Scouts: New revelations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186082"}],"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=186082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}