{"id":2238,"date":"2009-03-09T21:30:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2009-03-09T21:30:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T21:30:15","slug":"this_modern_lov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2238","title":{"rendered":"This Modern Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Gibbs III, a lawyer who fervently opposes gay marriage, puts a decidedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/03\/07\/david-gibbs-against.html\">futuristic spin<\/a> on the tired slippery slope argument. Money quote: <\/p>\n<p><b>(Gibbs) told rally participants gay marriage would &#8220;open the door to unusual marriage in North Carolina. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why not polygamy, or three or four spouses?&#8221; Gibbs asked. &#8220;Maybe people will want to marry their pets or robots.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Two thoughts. First, never be impressed when someone tells you he or she is an attorney. As the above amply demonstrates, anyone can get into law school.<\/p>\n<p>Second, why is this man trying to stand between me and my dreams? As long as me and my future robot girlfriend (who will bear a striking resemblance to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/summer-glau,14203\/\">Summer Glau<\/a>) are committed to each other&#8211;and she doesn&#8217;t go on homicidal rampage as a result of a faulty microprocessor&#8211;who is this guy to pass judgment on our happiness?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Gibbs III, a lawyer who fervently opposes gay marriage, puts a decidedly futuristic spin on the tired slippery slope argument. Money quote: (Gibbs) told rally participants gay marriage would &#8220;open the door to unusual marriage in North Carolina. &#8220;Why not polygamy, or three or four spouses?&#8221; Gibbs asked. &#8220;Maybe people will want to marry <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2238' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-A6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}