{"id":28702,"date":"2012-06-29T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28702"},"modified":"2012-06-29T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T16:23:48","slug":"28702","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28702","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Just Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Ritchie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/localnews\/ci_20964461\/minnesota-marriage-amendment-title-chosen-ballot-measure\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/<wbr>localnews\/ci_20964461\/<wbr>minnesota-marriage-amendment-<wbr>title-chosen-ballot-measure<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr>wants to change the name shown on the ballot<\/a> for the Marriage Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>And Joe Doakes of Como Park is not impressed:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Excellent example of the language battle.\u00a0 Other possible titles:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnshrining Hate In The Minnesota Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLimiting Homosexual Activist Court Tactics\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEstablishing a Second Class of Citizens\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLimiting\u201d is different from \u201cRecognition\u201d because \u201cLimiting\u201d implies discarding some legitimate options.\u00a0 That\u2019s not what\u2019s happening \u2013 we\u2019re not going from several forms of marriage down to one, we\u2019re recognizing that we\u2019ve always had one form and we intend to keep it.<\/p>\n<p>More than liberal meddling, it\u2019s liberal activism, attempting to influence voters with the wording question.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given that it&#8217;s Mark Ritchie, we should be thankful he&#8217;s not calling it the &#8220;Family Suppression Amendment&#8221;> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Ritchie http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/localnews\/ci_20964461\/minnesota-marriage-amendment-title-chosen-ballot-measurewants to change the name shown on the ballot for the Marriage Amendment. And Joe Doakes of Como Park is not impressed: &nbsp; Excellent example of the language battle.\u00a0 Other possible titles: \u201cEnshrining Hate In The Minnesota Constitution.\u201d \u201cLimiting Homosexual Activist Court Tactics\u201d \u201cEstablishing a Second Class of Citizens\u201d \u201cLimiting\u201d is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28702","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=28702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28704,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28702\/revisions\/28704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}