{"id":7971,"date":"2006-07-19T09:41:55","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T13:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7971.html"},"modified":"2006-07-19T09:41:55","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T13:41:55","slug":"the-significance-or-lack-thereof-to-yesterdays-anti-gay-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-significance-or-lack-thereof-to-yesterdays-anti-gay-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"The significance (or lack thereof) to yesterday&#8217;s anti-gay vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WaPo&#8217;s Dana Milbank had an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/07\/18\/AR2006071801336.html\">entertaining item<\/a> on yesterday&#8217;s House &#8220;debate&#8221; on a [tag]constitutional amendment[\/tag] to ban [tag]gay marriage[\/tag], and some of the least compelling arguments offered by the measure&#8217;s supporters. I&#8217;m having trouble picking the most ridiculous&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Choice A: &#8220;Marriage is not about love,&#8221; volunteered Rep. [tag]Todd Akin[\/tag] (R-Mo.), who noted his 31 years of matrimony. &#8220;It&#8217;s about a love that can bear children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Choice B: &#8220;The world did not start with [tag]Adam and Steve[\/tag],&#8221; Rep. [tag]Louie Gohmert[\/tag] (R-Tex.) told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Choice C:  Rep. [tag]Phil Gingrey[\/tag] (R-Ga.), a mustachioed gynecologist who served as one of the floor leaders yesterday, posited that the debate was &#8220;about values and how this great country represents them to the world.&#8221; After the vote, he elaborated: &#8220;This is probably the best message we can give to the Middle East in regards to the trouble we are having over there right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tough call, isn&#8217;t it? I&#8217;m leaning towards Gingrey&#8217;s comments, only because he seemed to suggest that yesterday&#8217;s vote would somehow have an effect on violence in the Middle East, but they&#8217;re all remarkably, almost surprisingly, dumb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WaPo&#8217;s Dana Milbank had an entertaining item on yesterday&#8217;s House &#8220;debate&#8221; on a [tag]constitutional amendment[\/tag] to ban [tag]gay marriage[\/tag], and some of the least compelling arguments offered by the measure&#8217;s supporters. I&#8217;m having trouble picking the most ridiculous&#8230;. Choice A: &#8220;Marriage is not about love,&#8221; volunteered Rep. [tag]Todd Akin[\/tag] (R-Mo.), who noted his 31 [&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-7971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971","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=7971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}