{"id":664,"date":"2004-11-16T15:42:57","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T15:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=664"},"modified":"2004-11-16T15:42:57","modified_gmt":"2004-11-16T15:42:57","slug":"assigning_blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"Assigning Blame"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been some grumblings in Democratic circles that the issue of gay marriage may have cost us the election. If ever there was a red herring to rationalize our loss, this is it. In states that had ballot initiatives banning gay marriage, Bush improved his level of support by the same margin<\/a> as in states without gay marriage on the ballot. Bush simply did a better job of selling himself than our guy did. But we Democrats always love a good scapegoat on which to pin our electoral frustrations. The issue of gay marriage may be this year’s Nader, which is completely unfair to gay activists. We have already won this culture war. I am convinced that the antipathy towards gays is more of a generational issue than a religious issue. Once the Boomers start shuffling off this mortal coil, we’ll probably look back and wonder what all the fuss was about. In the meantime, people in red and blue states will continue to live and work alongside gay neighbors and colleagues. Let the wingnuts like Dobson<\/a> have their final hurrah. Call me naive, but I believe that most Americans are decent, fair-minded people who won’t go along with the repressive policies of a hateful few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There have been some grumblings in Democratic circles that the issue of gay marriage may have cost us the election. If ever there was a red herring to rationalize our loss, this is it. In states that had ballot initiatives banning gay marriage, Bush improved his level of support by the same margin as in […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-664","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-aI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","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=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}