{"id":4594,"date":"2012-10-26T09:15:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2012-10-26T09:15:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T16:15:44","slug":"political-thoughts-for-a-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/political-thoughts-for-a-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"political thoughts for a friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sums up beautifully something I agree with, and so I wanted to pass it along to all of you.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wish my moderate Republican friends would simply be honest. They all say they&#8217;re voting for Romney because of his economic policies (tenuous and ill-formed as they are), and that they disagree with him on gay rights. Fine. Then look me in the eye, speak with a level clear voice, and say,&#8221; My taxes and take-home pay mean more than your fundamental civil rights, the sanctity of your marriage, your right to visit an ailing spouse in the hospital, your dignity as a citizen of this country, your healthcare, your right to inherit, the mental welfare and emotional well-being of your youth, and your very personhood.&#8221; It&#8217;s like voting for George Wallace during the Civil Rights movements, and apologizing for his racism. You&#8217;re still complicit. You&#8217;re still perpetuating anti-gay legislation and cultural homophobia. You don&#8217;t get to walk away clean, because you say you &#8220;disagree&#8221; with your candidate on these issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/171527-Evitas-Max-Von-Essen-and-Playwright-Doug-Wright-Share-Thoughts-Via-Facebook-on-Equal-Rights\"> Doug Wright<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sums up beautifully something I agree with, and so I wanted to pass it along to all of you. I wish my moderate Republican friends would simply be honest. They all say they&#8217;re voting for Romney because of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/political-thoughts-for-a-friday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1243,1242,1434],"class_list":["post-4594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-civil-rights","tag-doug-wright","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4595,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions\/4595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}