{"id":574,"date":"2004-09-18T12:52:39","date_gmt":"2004-09-18T16:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2010-09-13T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T17:36:06","slug":"liberals-ban-bible-force-men-to-marry-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Ban Bible! Force Men to Marry Men!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would Republicans actually do <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/20040917\/ap_on_el_pr\/campaign_mail_2\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Campaign mail with a return address of the Republican National Committee warns West Virginia voters that the Bible will be prohibited and men will marry men if liberals win in November.<\/p>\n<p>The literature shows a Bible with the word &#8220;BANNED&#8221; across it and a photo of a man, on his knees, placing a ring on the hand of another man with the word &#8220;ALLOWED.&#8221; The mailing tells West Virginians to &#8220;vote Republican to protect our families&#8221; and defeat the &#8220;liberal agenda.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said Friday that he wasn&#8217;t aware of the mailing, but said it could be the work of the RNC. &#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if we were mailing voters on the issue of same-sex marriage,&#8221; Gillespie said.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So does that sound like the Republicans? The same group who called South Carolina voters during the 2000 primary to ask what they thought of John McCain fathering a black out-of-wedlock baby? Oh, yes. It sounds a lot like them. Gillespie&#8217;s inability to deny it, of course, seals the deal. Your Republican Party: Anything to Win.<\/p>\n<p>(If anyone finds a scanned graphic of that mail, please let me know!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would Republicans actually do this? Campaign mail with a return address of the Republican National Committee warns West Virginia voters that the Bible will be prohibited and men will marry men if liberals win in November. The literature shows a Bible with the word &#8220;BANNED&#8221; across it and a photo of a man, on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[405,309,332,126,295],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush-legacy","category-gay-marriage","category-lgbt","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-rnc","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}