{"id":36134,"date":"2013-05-07T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36134"},"modified":"2013-05-07T06:24:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T11:24:29","slug":"upside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36134","title":{"rendered":"Upside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long said that the upside to any change in the law recognizing &#8220;gay marriage&#8221; would be that finally, once and for all, we could dispense with the notion of the Magic Gay Couple; more loving, more solid, more just-plain-<em>worthy<\/em>\u00a0than all of us dirty imperfect Breeders.<\/p>\n<p>Cable TV host David Tutera and his, er, husband are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/02\/tv-host-sex-addiction-david-tutera_n_3201935.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003\">well on the way toward resolving this cultural problem<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Tuesday, People magazine reported<a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20696281,00.html\" target=\"_hplink\">Tutera is divorcing Ryan Jurica<\/a>. They married in Vermont in 2003 and had a domestic partnership in California. The two had been together for 10 years and are expecting twins via a surrogate in July.<\/p>\n<p>Tutera filed the divorce papers in Los Angeles Superior Court on April 19, citing &#8220;irreconcilable differences,&#8221; according to People. He has been separated from Jurica since Jan. 1 and is seeking full custody of the children. Tutera does not want to pay spousal support and requests Jurica take responsibility for the legal fees.<\/p>\n<p>The breakup saga took a wild turn Wednesday when TMZ reported Jurica filed his own papers in Connecticut. He reportedly claims the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2013\/05\/01\/my-fair-wedding-david-tutera-sex-addiction-prostitutes-child-support\/\" target=\"_hplink\">TV host has a sex addiction and visits prostitutes<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\u00a0I&#8217;ve said it before, I&#8217;ll say it again; gays will not be fully equal in our society until we&#8217;ve dispensed with the idea of the Magic Gay Couple.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long said that the upside to any change in the law recognizing &#8220;gay marriage&#8221; would be that finally, once and for all, we could dispense with the notion of the Magic Gay Couple; more loving, more solid, more just-plain-worthy\u00a0than all of us dirty imperfect Breeders. Cable TV host David Tutera and his, er, husband [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-family-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36134","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=36134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36205,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36134\/revisions\/36205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}