{"id":1843,"date":"2008-11-19T21:47:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T01:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2008-11-19T21:47:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T01:47:03","slug":"a-message-for-some-californians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/19\/a-message-for-some-californians\/","title":{"rendered":"A message for some Californians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/graphjam.com\/2008\/11\/19\/song-chart-memes-consequences-of-gay-marriage\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/11\/gaymarriage.gif\" width=\"499\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Well... duh\" title=\"Well... duh\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had it in place for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/01\/its-about-time\/\">several years now<\/a>, and you know somehow the fabric of civilization has not disintegrated. And, you know, I still haven&#8217;t heard any argument against gay marriage that isn&#8217;t premised on either &#8220;God said so&#8221; or &#8220;Gays are icky&#8221; or both.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the best quote I read on this subject today: &#8220;I&#8217;m waiting for an eclipse so that all my new gay marriage superpowers can kick in.  After I got married, I was expecting the ability to rain fire and brimstone from the heavens and the telepathic ability to weaken marriages.  So far, nothing.  I feel like all I got was some legal protections out of this and I have to admit, I feel a little disappointed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">We&#8217;ve had it in place for several years now, and you know somehow the fabric of civilization has not disintegrated. And, you know, I still haven&#8217;t heard any argument against gay marriage that isn&#8217;t premised on either &#8220;God said so&#8221; or &#8220;Gays are icky&#8221; or both. Also, the best quote I read on this subject today: &#8220;I&#8217;m waiting for an&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/19\/a-message-for-some-californians\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[344,108,106,116,122],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-equality","tag-fred-phelps-blows-goats","tag-law","tag-society-of-fear","tag-usa","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-tJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}