{"id":161,"date":"2009-04-21T11:35:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtforce\/?p=161"},"modified":"2009-04-21T12:31:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T18:31:48","slug":"the-far-rights-losing-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"The Far Right&#8217;s Losing Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\">New York Times<\/a> featured an op\/ed piece about how the far right&#8217;s on their last leg with respect to their opposition to same-sex marriage and equal rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/19\/opinion\/19Rich.html\">The Bigots&#8217; Last Hurrah<\/a> &#8211; Frank Rich<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Beck dodging the issue, Dr. Laura&#8217;s cool with same-sex relationships, the governor of Utah supports equal rights. Sounds like the tides are changing.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve experienced the last leg here on campus as well, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithfulsoldier.com\/\">Faithful Soldier School of Evangelism<\/a> paying us a <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/c7m4gw\">few visits in the last two weeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And just for fun, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationformarriage.org\/\">National Organization for Marriage<\/a>-funded commercial, mentioned in the NY Times article, in which the apocalypse is predicted. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wp76ly2_NoI[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s New York Times featured an op\/ed piece about how the far right&#8217;s on their last leg with respect to their opposition to same-sex marriage and equal rights. The Bigots&#8217; Last Hurrah &#8211; Frank Rich Glenn Beck dodging the issue, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1105,1104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-happening-here","category-us-wrap-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}