{"id":189838,"date":"2010-02-07T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/07\/have-i-mentioned-that-i-love-alan-grayson-2\/"},"modified":"2010-02-07T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T03:21:00","slug":"have-i-mentioned-that-i-love-alan-grayson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/07\/have-i-mentioned-that-i-love-alan-grayson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Have I Mentioned that I Love Alan Grayson*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He lays into Pat Robertson&#8217;s comment on Haiti and the devil, and further notes that the religious right, and particularly Pat Robertson&#8217;s supporters have achieved none of their goals, specifically a constitutional amendment against gay marriage, and a ban of abortion, and he asks, &#8220;What about your own pact with the Devil?  How&#8217;s that worked out for you?&#8221; (3:07)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that everyone should be like Alan Grayson, but I think that it&#8217;s essential that the Democrats have a few of these sorts of firebrands to describe the wrong that the Republicans do in stark and moralistic terms.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-dWo3wZuI4Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-dWo3wZuI4Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">In a 110% purely heterosexual kind of way, of course, as <a href=\"http:\/\/patriotboy.blogspot.com\/\">the General would say<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He lays into Pat Robertson&#8217;s comment on Haiti and the devil, and further notes that the religious right, and particularly Pat Robertson&#8217;s supporters have achieved none of their goals, specifically a constitutional amendment against gay marriage, and a ban of abortion, and he asks, &#8220;What about your own pact with the Devil? How&#8217;s that worked &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,971,1030,978,1021,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-civil-rights","category-lgbtq","category-politics","category-religion","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189838"}],"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=189838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}