{"id":186339,"date":"2014-02-24T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/24\/no-this-is-not-the-onion-4\/"},"modified":"2014-02-24T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T01:07:00","slug":"no-this-is-not-the-onion-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/24\/no-this-is-not-the-onion-4\/","title":{"rendered":"No, This is Not the Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Burkman, a long time right wing lobbyist is <a href=\"http:\/\/americablog.com\/2014\/02\/gop-lobbyist-burkman-drafting-legislation-ban-gays-nfl.html\">writing legislation to ban gays from the NFL<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cImagine your son being forced to shower with a gay man,\u201d Burkman said in a statement. \u201cThat\u2019s a horrifying prospect for every mom in the country. What in the world has this nation come to?\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Of course, your son is already showering with gay men in gym class, at the health club, in the US military, in the NFL, and in the US Congress. The only difference is that in some of those places, your son is simply not aware of who the gay guy is. The NFL being more welcoming to gays won\u2019t change the simple fact that just because you don\u2019t know who\u2019s gay, doesn\u2019t mean the gay men aren\u2019t already there.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Normally, I would say that kicker to this story is that his brother James is gay and out, and thinks that Jack is an asshole:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/sU2dnAp.jpg\" width=\"475\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But this is not the kicker to this story.<\/p>\n<p>The kicker to the story was that he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legitgov.org\/dc_phone_list_names_220106-220806.html\">on the DC Madame&#8217;s phone list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, Jack was a \u2026\u2026\u2026 John.  (He denies it \u2026\u2026\u2026 Yeah \u2026\u2026\u2026 Sure)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Burkman, a long time right wing lobbyist is writing legislation to ban gays from the NFL: \u201cImagine your son being forced to shower with a gay man,\u201d Burkman said in a statement. \u201cThat\u2019s a horrifying prospect for every mom in the country. What in the world has this nation come to?\u201dOf course, your son &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1030,1057,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-lgbtq","category-sports","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186339"}],"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=186339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}