{"id":19383,"date":"2011-04-15T06:08:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19383"},"modified":"2011-04-15T06:08:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T12:08:08","slug":"they-warned-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19383","title":{"rendered":"They Warned Us&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that if we voted for John McCain or Tom Emmer that gays would be the victims of discrimination&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/4839057-418\/jesse-jackson-denies-gay-workers-harassment-discrimination-claims.html\">they were right<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A spokesman for the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Thursday denied a claim from a man who says he was fired from the civil rights leader\u2019s Rainbow PUSH Coalition because he is gay.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy R. Bennett filed a complaint with the city of Chicago\u2019s Commission on Human Relations last year, alleging Jackson fired him unjustly and that the civil rights leader forced him to perform \u201cuncomfortable\u201d tasks, including escorting various women to hotel rooms to meet Jackson for sex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have seen this on the &#8216;entertainment&#8221; section of some websites&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that if we voted for John McCain or Tom Emmer that gays would be the victims of discrimination&#8230; &#8230;and\u00a0they were right! A spokesman for the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Thursday denied a claim from a man who says he was fired from the civil rights leader\u2019s Rainbow PUSH Coalition because he is gay. Tommy R. [&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-19383","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\/19383","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=19383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19384,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19383\/revisions\/19384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}