{"id":1365,"date":"2007-09-28T12:54:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T17:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2007-09-28T12:54:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T17:54:35","slug":"note-to-gay-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1365","title":{"rendered":"Note to Gay America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are &#8220;you&#8221; (and for the moment, let&#8217;s assume the &#8220;gay movement&#8221; really is a monolithic movement with a cohesive goal) trying to get accepted as equals in this country?\u00a0 Because the whole &#8220;gay marriage&#8221; thing is a sign that you just might be.<\/p>\n<p>Just curious.\u00a0 And taking an opportunity to point out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ThisHour.asp#'Time%20to%20Get%20Louder,'%20MoveOn.Org%20Says\">this sort of thing<\/a> probably isn&#8217;t going to do you much good:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A controversial advertisement for a San Francisco festival that depicts the Last Supper as a sadomasochism party falls within the First Amendment and is not harmful to Christianity, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday. [<em>Note to Rep. Pelosi &#8211; &#8220;well, duh&#8221; regarding the First Amendment &#8211; and while Christianity has also survived much worse, I will defer to <\/em>much <em>better sources than you &#8211; Ed<\/em>.]\u00a0The ad for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ThisHour.asp#'Time%20to%20Get%20Louder,'%20MoveOn.Org%20Says\">Folsom Street Fair<\/a> [possibly NSFW] &#8211; to be held in Pelosi&#8217;s district on Sunday and which is partly funded by San Francisco&#8217;s Grants for the Arts program, which is funded by the city&#8217;s hotel tax &#8211; sparked outrage from Christian groups because it mirrors Leonardo Da Vinci&#8217;s famous painting of &#8220;The Last Supper&#8221; but replaces Jesus and his apostles with scantily leather-clad men and women sitting at a table adorned with sex toys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I know &#8211; let the artists romp and play.\u00a0 No biggie.<\/p>\n<p>But the whole thing reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/28491\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are &#8220;you&#8221; (and for the moment, let&#8217;s assume the &#8220;gay movement&#8221; really is a monolithic movement with a cohesive goal) trying to get accepted as equals in this country?\u00a0 Because the whole &#8220;gay marriage&#8221; thing is a sign that you just might be. Just curious.\u00a0 And taking an opportunity to point out that this sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}