{"id":2106,"date":"2015-03-28T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T18:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2015-03-28T13:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T18:39:57","slug":"liberals-the-recent-anti-gay-laws-are-your-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/liberals-the-recent-anti-gay-laws-are-your-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals, The Recent Anti-Gay Laws Are Your Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone on the left is appalled at states passing anti-gay legislation. And you&#8217;re right, it is\u00c2\u00a0appalling and evil.<\/p>\n<p>And it is entirely your fault.<\/p>\n<p>When a very few bakers and photographers said they wouldn&#8217;t service a gay wedding, you could have responded without force. You could have spread bad publicity and organized a boycott. You&#8217;d get lots of support, including mine. It&#8217;s a non-violent solution to unacceptable behavior. And it works &#8211; at least one bakery, when all of this crap started, lost so much business it closed.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bert-ernie-cake-topper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-2108 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bert-ernie-cake-topper.jpg\" alt=\"bert-ernie-cake-topper\" width=\"188\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a>you just <em>had<\/em> to bring government force into the picture. You demanded Big Brother punish them with huge fines, and in some cases mandatory sensitivity training and onerous reporting requirements. <em>You<\/em> initiated aggression. And people who are aggressed against fight back. They also become heroes to people who agree with them.<\/p>\n<p>Their defense against being punished for their {wretched} behavior was to go to the very government you cheered on and demand that government leave them alone. You used to government to get your way, and you did for a while. Now they&#8217;ve done the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>If they hadn&#8217;t been attacked by their government, these laws wouldn&#8217;t exist. The ass-hats would have been legally allowed to remain ass-hats, and boycotts and bad publicity would have taken care of the problem. It might have taken a little longer, but that just makes it more effective.<\/p>\n<p>So while you&#8217;re sharing your outrage at these bills (and don&#8217;t get me wrong, you should be outraged) take a moment from your seething to admit that your clan is the only reason they were passed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Check out an earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/work-for-me-or-else\/\">article<\/a> on this subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone on the left is appalled at states passing anti-gay legislation. And you&#8217;re right, it is\u00c2\u00a0appalling and evil. And it is entirely your fault. When a very few bakers and photographers said they wouldn&#8217;t service a gay wedding, you could have responded without force. You could have spread bad publicity and organized a boycott. You&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}