{"id":194468,"date":"2008-09-20T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/20\/number-3421-on-the-list-of-things-that-id-never-say\/"},"modified":"2008-09-20T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T01:16:00","slug":"number-3421-on-the-list-of-things-that-id-never-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/20\/number-3421-on-the-list-of-things-that-id-never-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Number 3421 on the List of Things that I&#8217;d Never Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God Bless Jerry Brown.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s always rubbed me the wrong way, but his decision to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/09\/18\/BATM12VSRA.DTL\">accurately label the Califoria hate initiative<\/a> is a <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">very<\/span> good thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those voters were much more likely to oppose the measure when read Brown&#8217;s wording (58 percent against it and 30 percent for it) than those in the same category who were read the old version of Prop. 8 (42 percent against and 37 percent for it), according to the Field Poll.<\/p>\n<p>The Brown language reads, in part: &#8220;Eliminates the right of same-sex couples to marry.&#8221; The original version read, in part: &#8220;Limit on marriage.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No big surprise here&#8230;If you tell the truth people vote now on this abomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God Bless Jerry Brown. He&#8217;s always rubbed me the wrong way, but his decision to accurately label the Califoria hate initiative is a very good thing: Those voters were much more likely to oppose the measure when read Brown&#8217;s wording (58 percent against it and 30 percent for it) than those in the same category &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1030,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-lgbtq","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194468"}],"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=194468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}