{"id":7636,"date":"2009-05-06T13:11:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7636"},"modified":"2009-05-06T13:11:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:31:07","slug":"in-honor-of-maine-choosing-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7636","title":{"rendered":"In Honor of Maine Choosing Equality."},"content":{"rendered":"

First, a video that made me cry. Philip Spooner, an 86 year old Maine resident, veteran of WWII, and lifelong Republican:<\/p>\n

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Next, a video that made me laugh. Roy Zimmerman<\/a> and Laura Love<\/a>, performing his song, “Summer of Loving”:<\/p>\n

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Finally, a question:<\/p>\n

For those of you who oppose marriage equality, what would it take to convince you that your stance is wrong?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I ask because we’ve got Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and 5 US states. Same Sex Marriage has been legal in the Netherlands since 2000. We’re quickly nearing the point where appeals to how SSM will destroy society can be met with empirical evidence as to how it hasn’t<\/em>. Bare appeals to tradition (in addition to being logical fallacies) hold less weight the more tradition there is behind SSM.<\/p>\n

Because I’m serious about asking what it would take to convince SSM opponents that their stance is wrong, my normal comments policy is not in effect here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, a video that made me cry. Philip Spooner, an 86 year old Maine resident, veteran of WWII, and lifelong Republican: Next, a video that made me laugh. Roy Zimmerman and Laura Love, performing his song, “Summer of Loving”: Finally, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}