{"id":3301,"date":"2014-02-28T02:24:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T07:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2014-02-28T02:24:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T07:24:10","slug":"the-tea-party-and-phallic-symbols-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2014\/02\/28\/the-tea-party-and-phallic-symbols-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tea Party and Phallic Symbols, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I certainly hope to write more about the homophobic piece of legislation recently vetoed by Arizona governor Jan Brewer, but for now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/tea-party-nation-brewers-veto-imposed-slavery-mandatory-penis-cakes-homosexual-weddings\">this<\/a> will have to do:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Judson Phillips, president of Tea Party Nation, is a little upset about Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer\u2019s decision last night to\u00a0veto a bill\u00a0that would have\u00a0expanded the ability\u00a0of business owners to discriminate against LGBT people and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTyranny is on the march,\u201d Phillips declares in a\u00a0piece on the TPN website\u00a0that he also emailed to members of the group, adding that business owners who are not allowed to discriminate against gays and lesbians are \u201cslaves\u201d to the \u201cgreat liberal state,\u201d aided by \u201cFrench Republicans\u201d like Brewer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what is French about Ms Brewer, but isn&#8217;t &#8220;French Republican&#8221; redundant? I mean, how many monarchists are left in France these days?<\/p>\n<p>But this is what literally takes the cake:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Should a devote baker be required to create a cake for a homosexual wedding that has a giant phallic symbol on it or should a baker be required to create pastries for a homosexual wedding in the shape of genitallia [sic]?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What if our &#8220;devout baker&#8221; were asked to prepare a cake for a straight couple with the same symbols? Does Phillips think only homosexuals have genital organs?<\/p>\n<p>What a dick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I certainly hope to write more about the homophobic piece of legislation recently vetoed by Arizona governor Jan Brewer, but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}