{"id":630,"date":"2011-09-28T16:07:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T02:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/?p=630"},"modified":"2011-09-28T16:07:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T02:07:18","slug":"coming-to-a-ballot-box-near-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2011\/09\/28\/coming-to-a-ballot-box-near-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming To A Ballot-Box Near Some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/a-shit-storm-is-gathering\/Content?oid=10126650\">Piece<\/a> in this week&#8217;s <em>Stranger<\/em> reporting that polls suggest a majority of Washingtonians of all demographics now support Gay Marriage. And so, it&#8217;ll be on the ballot in 2012. But the fucking fundamentalist nut-jobs are already planning to spend about a gazillion-and-a-half dolllars to deliver its defeat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just boggles the mind that this is even an issue. I mean, what year is this, 1400 AD?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here&#8217;s an idea I&#8217;ve not seen floated: a constitutional amendment secularising the institution of marriage. Only marriages officiated by the state (goes without saying: all states will be required to allow same-sex marriages) will be recognised for benefit purposes. Alternatively, any church which refuses to perform same-sex marriage loses its fucking tax-exempt status.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oh, wait: we have a fucking Republican-In-Sheep&#8217;s-Clothing in the White House. That shit&#8217;ll never fly. But it <em>oughta<\/em> fly in any society with half a ounce of sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piece in this week&#8217;s Stranger reporting that polls suggest a majority of Washingtonians of all demographics now support Gay Marriage. And so, it&#8217;ll be on the ballot in 2012. But the fucking fundamentalist nut-jobs are already planning to spend about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2011\/09\/28\/coming-to-a-ballot-box-near-some\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}