{"id":1232,"date":"2005-12-03T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T14:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2005\/12\/03\/boo-uae\/"},"modified":"2005-12-03T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T14:31:02","slug":"boo-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2005\/12\/03\/boo-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"Boo, UAE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1157'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why didn&#8217;t the Christian Right rejoice at the forced hormonal treatment of gays in the United Arab Emirates?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therevealer.org\/archives\/timely_002260.php\">The Revealer offers an answer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thus, the arrests in the UAE put Christian conservative media activists in an awkward position. Speaking out against the UAE&rsquo;s theocratic government would force them to qualify or even contradict unequivocal statements they&rsquo;ve made in the past. But condoning brutalities like forced medical procedures and lashings would surely squander the political capital Christian conservatives have won in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>So for once, Pat Robertson, Chuck Colson and James Dobson are silent on the topic of gay marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why didn&#8217;t the Christian Right rejoice at the forced hormonal treatment of gays in the United Arab Emirates? The Revealer offers an answer: Thus, the arrests in the UAE put Christian conservative media activists in an awkward position. Speaking out against the UAE&rsquo;s theocratic government would force them to qualify or even contradict unequivocal statements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-jS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}