{"id":190343,"date":"2009-12-07T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/07\/the-never-ending-battle-of-obama-and-his-evil-minionstrade-against-lgbt-civil-rights-continues\/"},"modified":"2009-12-07T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T04:33:00","slug":"the-never-ending-battle-of-obama-and-his-evil-minionstrade-against-lgbt-civil-rights-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/07\/the-never-ending-battle-of-obama-and-his-evil-minionstrade-against-lgbt-civil-rights-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Never Ending Battle of Obama and His Evil Minions&#038;trade Against LGBT Civil Rights Continues&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object width=\"383\" height=\"310\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gDnzsWxD6zc&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gDnzsWxD6zc&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"383\" height=\"310\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I Can&#8217;t, It Might Offend Bigots<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Remember when I wrote that a political appointee at the Office of Personnel Management was <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/more-homophobe-phobic-crap-for-obama.html\">instructing insurance companies not to write a policy for a woman&#8217;s wife in California<\/a>, despite an instruction from the courts to do so?<\/p>\n<p>Well, now Director of the Office of Personnel Management,and Obama political appointee John Berry is saying that he <a href=\"http:\/\/gay.americablog.com\/2009\/12\/gay-opm-director-says-he-doesnt-have.html\">won&#8217;t follow the court order because he has no authority to do so<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dude, when a court gives you an order, you cannot claim that you don&#8217;t have any authority.<\/p>\n<p>You can appeal and ask for a stay, but that&#8217;s it.  A court order <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">is<\/span> the authority to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Can&#8217;t, It Might Offend Bigots Remember when I wrote that a political appointee at the Office of Personnel Management was instructing insurance companies not to write a policy for a woman&#8217;s wife in California, despite an instruction from the courts to do so? Well, now Director of the Office of Personnel Management,and Obama political &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,971,969,1051,1030],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-civil-rights","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190343"}],"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=190343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}