{"id":11606,"date":"2007-07-27T10:25:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T14:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11606.html"},"modified":"2007-07-27T10:25:19","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T14:25:19","slug":"the-corners-man-on-dog-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-corners-man-on-dog-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corner&#8217;s &#8216;Man on Dog&#8217; moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed this morning that Oliver Willis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverwillis.com\/2007\/07\/kathyrn-jean-lo.html\">wrote<\/a> that &#8220;National Review&#8217;s Kathryn Jean Lopez has a Rick Santorum moment and says the reason a bestiality case happened in Massachusetts is because of gay marriage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought he was kidding. He wasn&#8217;t &#8212; The Corner had <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=OGRlYTRiOTBkOGJlNWExZjJmOGRmNWM0M2VhZWU3Njc=\">this post<\/a>, under a headline that read, &#8220;Slippery Slope?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just a coincidence that this happened in Massachusetts? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrowestdailynews.com\/homepage\/x1578449844\">Sherborn teen charged with bestiality<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(And no I&#8217;m not equating men and dogs.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, but she was equating gay marriage with bestiality. Santorum made a fool out of himself when he argued that national tolerance for gay relationships might lead to &#8220;man on dog&#8221; sex, and what Lopez suggested was equally offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez has since apologized, conceding that she showed &#8220;very bad judgment.&#8221; That&#8217;s reassuring, I suppose, but what kind of worldview leads one to see a headline about bestiality and immediately think of gay marriage in Massachusetts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed this morning that Oliver Willis wrote that &#8220;National Review&#8217;s Kathryn Jean Lopez has a Rick Santorum moment and says the reason a bestiality case happened in Massachusetts is because of gay marriage.&#8221; I thought he was kidding. He wasn&#8217;t &#8212; The Corner had this post, under a headline that read, &#8220;Slippery Slope?&#8221; Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}