{"id":1881,"date":"2004-02-25T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2004-02-25T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T01:30:00","slug":"weasel-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/02\/25\/21\/30\/weasel-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Weasel Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Bush in a debate in 2000, speaking about &#8220;gay marriage&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2096061\/\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: So if a state were voting on gay marriage, you would suggest to that state not to approve it?<br \/>A: The state can do what they want to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a>Compare that with his latest desperate attempt to galvanize the frothing religious regressives out to the polls this November:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/02\/20040224-2.html\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we are to prevent the meaning of marriage from being changed forever, our nation must enact a constitutional amendment to protect marriage in America. Decisive and democratic action is needed, because attempts to redefine marriage in a single state or city could have serious consequences throughout the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a>This position strikes even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/politics\/special\/clinton\/stories\/barr021098.htm\">Bob Barr, the twice-divorced author of the problematically un-Constitutional &#8220;Defense of Marriage Act&#8221;<\/a> as, well, a bad thing:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/02\/15\/GAYMARRIAGE.TMP\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Constitution is no place for forcing social policy on states, especially in this case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a>Earlier <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2004_02_22_WeekArchive.php#'107759047044885321'\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Bush in a debate in 2000, speaking about &#8220;gay marriage&#8221;: Q: So if a state were voting on gay marriage, you would suggest to that state not to approve it?A: The state can&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}