{"id":193945,"date":"2008-11-05T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/05\/a-critique-of-the-no-on-prop-8-effort\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T23:26:00","slug":"a-critique-of-the-no-on-prop-8-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/05\/a-critique-of-the-no-on-prop-8-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"A Critique of the No on Prop 8 Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2008\/11\/its-official-nearly-20000-marriages-of.html\">John Aravosis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>I&#8217;d like someone to explain to me why the leaders of our side of the campaign shouldn&#8217;t be metaphorically beaten to within an inch of their lives. We should have hired political professionals, even &#8211; eeks! &#8211; straight ones, to do this. But we relied on the usual gay names and faces because, cumbaya my lord, a PC group hug is far more important than actually winning. I&#8217;m disgusted. And I want to see some heads rolling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would note that this problem is not unique to the Gay community&#8230;In fact it appears to be endemic to the Democratic party. (Brazile, Shrum, Penn, etc.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting John Aravosis: I&#8217;d like someone to explain to me why the leaders of our side of the campaign shouldn&#8217;t be metaphorically beaten to within an inch of their lives. We should have hired political professionals, even &#8211; eeks! &#8211; straight ones, to do this. But we relied on the usual gay names and faces &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1030,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbtq","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193945"}],"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=193945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}