{"id":15073,"date":"2012-03-06T16:20:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15073"},"modified":"2012-03-06T17:59:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T01:59:18","slug":"dear-rob-reiner-please-stop-saying-that-marriage-equality-is-the-last-piece-of-the-civil-rights-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15073","title":{"rendered":"Dear Rob Reiner, please stop saying that marriage equality is the last piece of the civil rights puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So on a news report this week, I saw Rob Reiner talking about how gay marriage is the final piece of the civil rights puzzle. This is apparently something Reiner has been repeating for months<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I appreciate how dedicated Reiner is to SSM, but he needs to stop saying that. Transsexuals <\/del>Trans people are still fighting civil rights battles. Immigrants are still fighting civil rights battles. Black people are still fighting civil rights battles. Etc, etc (I’m not going to attempt to list every group). Reiner erases a lot of crucial struggles every time he frames same-sex marriage in this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So on a news report this week, I saw Rob Reiner talking about how gay marriage is the final piece of the civil rights puzzle. This is apparently something Reiner has been repeating for months. I appreciate how dedicated Reiner … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15078,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15073\/revisions\/15078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}