{"id":24425,"date":"2014-02-25T08:28:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T13:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24425"},"modified":"2014-02-25T08:33:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T13:33:58","slug":"lobbyist-wants-ban-gays-from-playing-in-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/25\/lobbyist-wants-ban-gays-from-playing-in-the-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobbyist wants to ban gays from playing in the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the sort of story that wouldn&#8217;t be out of place in the 1970s, but seems to have come <a href=\"http:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2014\/02\/24\/lobbyist-plans-to-introduce-bill-aimed-at-banning-gay-nfl-players-seriously\/\" target=\"_blank\">adrift in the timestream<\/a> and for some reason shows up today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just when it appeared that a supposedly modern, progressive society is willing to accept people for who they are and not force them to pretend to be something they\u2019re not, someone is trying to kick the pendulum sharply in the other direction.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>The Hill<\/em>, lobbyist Jack Burkman said Monday that he\u2019s preparing legislation that would ban gay players from the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are losing our decency as a nation,\u201d Burkman said in a statement. \u201cImagine your son being forced to shower with a gay man. That\u2019s a horrifying prospect for every mom in the country. What in the world has this nation come to?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One must assume that Burkman&#8217;s belief is, <em>contra<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/5941348\/they-wont-magically-turn-you-into-a-lustful-cockmonster-chris-kluwe-explains-gay-marriage-to-the-politician-who-is-offended-by-an-nfl-player-supporting-it\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Kluwe<\/a>, sharing a shower room with a gay man <em>will<\/em> magically turn you into a &#8220;lustful cockmonster&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the sort of story that wouldn&#8217;t be out of place in the 1970s, but seems to have come adrift in the timestream and for some reason shows up today: Just when it appeared that a supposedly modern, progressive society is willing to accept people for who they are and not force them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,9,10,13],"tags":[698,715,198,196,179],"class_list":["post-24425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-law","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-congress","tag-constitution","tag-equalrights","tag-lgbt","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6lX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24430,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24425\/revisions\/24430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}