{"id":145,"date":"2005-08-12T11:26:55","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/08\/12\/are-these-people-really-that-stupid\/"},"modified":"2005-08-12T11:26:55","modified_gmt":"2005-08-12T15:26:55","slug":"are-these-people-really-that-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/08\/12\/are-these-people-really-that-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Are These People Really That Stupid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2608'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Okay. I normally don&#8217;t post twice in one day, but I was reading the Boston Globe on-line and stumbled upon an article including the most idiotic quote fathomable. I just had to write about it.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>It was in an article about the swans in Boston&#8217;s historic Public Garden. The city has two swans, Romeo and Juliet, that take residence in the park&#8217;s pond. It was recently confirmed that both swans are female&#8230;and, as swans do, they formed a long-term relationship. In this case, a same-sex relationship.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>A 15 year old tourist from New York said something sweet: &#8220;&#8221;If these two swans are happy together, they shouldn&#8217;t have to have a guy. It&#8217;s good to have the swans as a symbol of the acceptance in Massachusetts.&#8221;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>But then Brian Camenker,&nbsp;the idiot director of the Article 8 Alliance, (an anti-gay marriage group) was quoted as saying: &#8220;I think this proves that there&#8217;s something in the environment in Massachusetts. Maybe it&#8217;s the water that&#8217;s causing all this lunacy.&#8221; Granted, he said it partially in jest.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>But don&#8217;t these people realize that if this is happenining in the animal world &#8211; without the promotion by a liberal media to make it an &#8220;acceptable lifestyle&#8221; &#8211; then it is, in fact, a natural occurance and not against nature?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay. I normally don&#8217;t post twice in one day, but I was reading the Boston Globe on-line and stumbled upon an article including the most idiotic quote fathomable. I just had to write about it. It was in an article about the swans in Boston&#8217;s historic Public Garden. The city has two swans, Romeo and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}