{"id":387,"date":"2007-06-25T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T01:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/06\/25\/pillow-talk-matters\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T01:33:10","slug":"pillow-talk-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/06\/25\/pillow-talk-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pillow talk matters.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what John Aravosis says on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2007\/06\/elizabeth-edwards-im-completely.html\">his pos<\/a>t noting Elizabeth Edward&#8217;s support of gay marriage.  While I&#8217;m not sure I entirely agree with his predictions, I think Aravosis makes some excellent points when he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I want my civil rights, I don&#8217;t want to be on the receiving end of constant triangulation. Mrs. Edwards will be a force for good, at least as it concerns the civil and human rights of gay and lesbian Americans. As much as I like the man, I can&#8217;t say the same about Mr. Clinton. He&#8217;s going to be advising Hillary to throw us under the bus. That doesn&#8217;t mean Hillary will, but her top two advisers have a history of legislative gay-bashing for political gain. That&#8217;s of legitimate concern.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For a number of reasons, I don&#8217;t think Bill Clinton would urge repeating his appalling <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Defense_of_Marriage_Act\">DOMA<\/a> behavior.  That said, I like Elizabeth Edwards more than any of the 2008 spouses (and many of the candidates themselves).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what John Aravosis says on his post noting Elizabeth Edward&#8217;s support of gay marriage. While I&#8217;m not sure I entirely agree with his predictions, I think Aravosis makes some excellent points when he says: I want my civil rights, I don&#8217;t want to be on the receiving end of constant triangulation. Mrs. Edwards will [&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":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}