{"id":1686,"date":"2007-09-03T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/steve_lonegan_why_the_gop_should_welcome_gays_into_the_party\/"},"modified":"2007-09-03T04:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T04:02:00","slug":"steve_lonegan_why_the_gop_should_welcome_gays_into_the_party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"Steve Lonegan: Why the GOP should welcome gays into the party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obstacles to achieving our real goal of reducing the size of government and limiting its ability to interfere in our lives must be torn down. Gays shouldn&#8217;t expect government to foist acceptance of their lifestyle on others; religious conservatives shouldn&#8217;t expect gays to abandon an integral part of their being.<\/p>\n<p>Barry Goldwater once remarked that government cannot pass laws to &#8220;make people like each other.&#8221; His words still ring true today. Labeling people &#8220;homophobes&#8221; or &#8220;bigots&#8221; if they refuse to accept the entire gay agenda creates political fractures that work against individual liberties and serve to keep gay voters in the Democratic Party&#8217;s political ghetto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northjersey.com\/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxNCZmZ2JlbDdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5NzE4MzAzNw\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obstacles to achieving our real goal of reducing the size of government and limiting its ability to interfere in our lives must be torn down. Gays shouldn&#8217;t expect government to foist acceptance of their lifestyle on others; religious conservatives shouldn&#8217;t<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1686\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}