{"id":632,"date":"2004-10-15T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T20:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/10\/15\/hypocrite-parents\/"},"modified":"2004-10-15T16:14:06","modified_gmt":"2004-10-15T20:14:06","slug":"hypocrite-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/10\/15\/hypocrite-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrite parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1497'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clearly of a piece that Dick Cheney and his wife would be indignant over Kerry mentioning their daughter&#8217;s homosexuality on the one hand, and that George Bush and his wife on the other are dead-set against stem-cell research.  That piece is called <i>double standard<\/i>.  I wish that more members of &#8220;first families&#8221; in the US would speak out publicly against the hypocrisy their families and their class typically support.  Patti Davis did, in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6232686\/site\/newsweek\/\">commentary<\/a> on Christopher Reeve&#8217;s death.  Mary Cheney, what do you think?  Do you think it&#8217;s ok that your parents are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&amp;c=Article&amp;cid=1097790608918&amp;call_pageid=968332188854&amp;col=968350060724\">&#8220;indignant&#8221; and &#8220;angry&#8221;<\/a> because someone pointed out that you&#8217;re a lesbian?  Who&#8217;s being &#8220;political&#8221; and &#8220;tawdry&#8221; here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s clearly of a piece that Dick Cheney and his wife would be indignant over Kerry mentioning their daughter&#8217;s homosexuality on the one hand, and that George Bush and his wife on the other are dead-set against stem-cell research. That piece is called double standard. I wish that more members of &#8220;first families&#8221; in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}