{"id":54242,"date":"2015-07-10T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54242"},"modified":"2015-07-10T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:00:26","slug":"the-more-things-change-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54242","title":{"rendered":"The More Things Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If a deacon were to announce a rally entitled \u201cGod Hates Fags\u201d to begin on the church lawn and stroll the sidewalks to City Hall, but the local NAMBLA chapter obtained a court order restraining her from holding the rally or from making future comments unflattering to gays on the grounds that the Bible is hate speech, which side would the present Supreme Court favor: freedom of speech and religion?  Or gay rights?&nbsp;<br \/>\nAre you sure about that?<br \/>\nIllinois Nazis marching through Jewish neighborhoods was protected in 1977 and cross-burning was protected in 1992.  But back in those ignorant, bigoted times, homosexuality was still a mental illness and gay sex was a criminal act.  Today . . . ?<br \/>\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The definitions of criminality and insanity are both tools of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If a deacon were to announce a rally entitled \u201cGod Hates Fags\u201d to begin on the church lawn and stroll the sidewalks to City Hall, but the local NAMBLA chapter obtained a court order restraining her from holding the rally or from making future comments unflattering to gays on [&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-54242","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\/54242","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=54242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54243,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54242\/revisions\/54243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}