{"id":127,"date":"2006-11-04T17:44:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T22:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/11\/04\/virginias-biggest-embarassment\/"},"modified":"2006-11-04T17:44:45","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T22:44:45","slug":"virginias-biggest-embarassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/11\/04\/virginias-biggest-embarassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia&#8217;s Biggest Embarassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Del. Bob Marshall is a hateful little man whose continued presence in public life in Virginia ought to embarrass any decent and thinking Virginian.  The Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/11\/03\/AR2006110301580.html\">profiles<\/a> him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe debate was over, and the stately atrium at the University of Virginia School of Law was nearly empty. But Del. Robert G. Marshall, a Prince William County Republican who wryly refers to himself as Virginia&#8217;s &#8220;chief homophobe,&#8221; was just warming up to his next showdown over same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a natural order of things, a natural order where gay marriage is an impossibility,&#8221; he said, books tucked under his arm and waving a hand for emphasis, like the disheveled college professor he often resembles. &#8220;For example, a woman&#8217;s arm is constructed at a certain angle so that she can adequately cradle a baby. This is the way we&#8217;re created. There are just certain things that nature intended.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I generally don&#8217;t focus on state legislators, especially in Virginia, where it all seems so pointless.  But this man?  This foul little man?  More and more people have had enough, and I suspect he&#8217;ll see the end of elected office next time &#8217;round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Del. Bob Marshall is a hateful little man whose continued presence in public life in Virginia ought to embarrass any decent and thinking Virginian. The Washington Post profiles him: The debate was over, and the stately atrium at the University of Virginia School of Law was nearly empty. But Del. Robert G. Marshall, a Prince [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}