{"id":5084,"date":"2013-03-26T16:48:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T23:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/?p=5084"},"modified":"2013-03-26T16:52:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T23:52:24","slug":"i-have-been-quietly-standing-in-the-shade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/i-have-been-quietly-standing-in-the-shade\/","title":{"rendered":"i have been quietly standing in the shade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys!<\/p>\n<p>A word on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomtomarry.org\/pages\/live-blog-marriage-at-the-supreme-court\">BIG NEWS<\/a> happening now. There have been a lot of articles, videos, tweets, Facebook updates, the list goes on, of what&#8217;s going on, and I just have something to say.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/i-have-been-quietly-standing-in-the-shade\/hrc\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5087\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5087\" alt=\"hrc\" src=\"http:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hrc.jpg\" width=\"383\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hrc.jpg 639w, https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hrc-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone deserves the right to be married, because love is love is love. The fact that we&#8217;re even having this discussion is mind blowing if not for the history of our country slowly speeding up to the society&#8217;s wants. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/24\/sports\/football\/scott-fujita-acceptance-by-example-in-locker-room-and-at-home.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\">This article by Scott Fujita<\/a> brings to the forefront many a time when America did things that Americans should (and have) learn from. And not all at a time hundreds of years ago, when we can claim ignorance: recently, so recently that there are people around to chat with, so recently that we should be looking at the (non) issue of the right to marry and be thinking, &#8220;Oh god, our children will be so\u00a0embarrassed\u00a0by all of this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hope that we do the right thing. I hope that the right thing is obvious. I hope that America can grow and learn from another time in our history when doing what is right is not even necessarily doing something that&#8217;s hard.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter if being homosexual is a choice (which I don&#8217;t think it is.) Because even if it was, so what? People choose to marry, and remarry, and have numerous ex-spouses and no one bats an eye. <strong>Every relationship deserves the\u00a0recognition\u00a0and the respect and the challenge of marriage<\/strong>. And I, for one, can&#8217;t wait to have this be in our past, and have our children live in the bright, colorful future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys! A word on the BIG NEWS happening now. There have been a lot of articles, videos, tweets, Facebook updates, the list goes on, of what&#8217;s going on, and I just have something to say. Everyone deserves the right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/i-have-been-quietly-standing-in-the-shade\/\">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":[5],"tags":[1278,1279,1280],"class_list":["post-5084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-letter","tag-gay-marriage","tag-proposition-8","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084","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=5084"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5086,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions\/5086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}