{"id":273,"date":"2007-03-13T23:18:42","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T04:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/03\/13\/perhaps-theres-hope-for-va-republicans\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T08:11:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T13:11:21","slug":"perhaps-theres-hope-for-va-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/03\/13\/perhaps-theres-hope-for-va-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps there&#8217;s hope for VA Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get this: today, an elected Virginia Republican said something making national news, and <em>it wasn&#8217;t hate-filled or embarrassing<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>In all seriousness, though, I&#8217;m glad to see Sen. Warner <a href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/news_theswamp\/2007\/03\/warner_hits_pac.html\">standing up for what&#8217;s right<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I respectfully but strongly disagree with the chairman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s view that homosexuality is immoral.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, this doesn&#8217;t mean I expect him to start helping Rep. Meehan get this policy changed, but it&#8217;s a wonderfully refreshing change from what we&#8217;ve come to expect from his side of the aisle.  Here&#8217;s hoping for more.<\/p>\n<p>Also, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhuber.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/peter-paces-peck-at-perverts.html\">Jeff Huber&#8217;s take<\/a> on the matter.  He&#8217;s retired Navy, and knows a thing or two about the matter at hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get this: today, an elected Virginia Republican said something making national news, and it wasn&#8217;t hate-filled or embarrassing! In all seriousness, though, I&#8217;m glad to see Sen. Warner standing up for what&#8217;s right: I respectfully but strongly disagree with the chairman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s view that homosexuality is immoral. Now, this doesn&#8217;t mean I expect him to start [&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,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}