{"id":12019,"date":"2009-04-15T14:44:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T18:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/04\/15\/12019.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:50:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:50:26","slug":"only-one-man-can-save-us-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/04\/15\/only-one-man-can-save-us-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Only One Man can save us now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger was just asked, by a recorded message over the telephone, whether &#8220;marriage between only one man and one woman should be legal in the state of Connecticut&#8221;. I froze. I mean, I would be against making marriage between only one man and one woman illegal. That seems harsh. On the other hand, since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationformarriage.org\/\">National Organization for Marriage<\/a>, which paid for the robocall, would probably represent all the <I>yes<\/i> responses as being from people who oppose gay marriage, it would be bad to inflate that number. But then, responding <I>yes<\/i> would clearly label me as a moron, right? And it&#8217;s possible, just, that the <I>yes<\/i> responses would be used as some sort of <I>they want to ban heterosexual marriage<\/i> strawman, and I don't want to contribute to that, either, do I?\n<p>After a few seconds of silent panicking, I heard the machine say that the survey would terminate if they didn't hear <i>yes<\/i>, <i>no<\/i>, or <i>repeat<\/i>, so I stayed silent and let the thing sign off.\n<p>I remain a bit perplexed, though. I mean, assuming that the writer and the voice actor meant to ask whether I thought that <I>only marriage between one man and one woman<\/i> should be legal, how did they screw up the sentence? It&#8217;s not like the other way reads better, in fact, it was so obviously screwed-up that my response was to the screwed-up word order, rather than to the content of the question. Or, perhaps, I&#8217;m still a stickler, underneath. Which should still be legal, in the state of Connecticut.\n<p><i>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/i>,<br>-V.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger wonders what the hell people were thinking, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18733,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12019\/revisions\/18733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}