{"id":4171,"date":"2016-07-12T16:22:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T20:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2016-07-12T16:22:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T20:22:14","slug":"how-crazy-are-they-department-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4171","title":{"rendered":"How-crazy-are-they? department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hostage to evangelical loonies who just can&#8217;t face reality, the Republican Party&#8217;s platform is on track to be the most deranged agenda ever.  Worse, because we&#8217;re talking about crazy people, the platform is unlikely to be forgotten the very minute the convention ends.  In times past, the grown-ups would have stepped-in to shut-down the loonies; not this go-round, though.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Though several states have banned so-called &#8216;conversion therapy,&#8217; for the reason that the overwhelming majority of scientists believe gender identity and sexual orientation are hard-wired before birth, and conversion therapy is psychologically harmful, Tony Perkins has persuaded the party to consider a plank in support of it.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>The platform calls for reversal of the Supreme Court decision upholding same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>The platform includes a plank permitting the Bible to be used to teach history.<\/ul>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hostage to evangelical loonies who just can&#8217;t face reality, the Republican Party&#8217;s platform is on track to be the most deranged agenda ever. Worse, because we&#8217;re talking about crazy people, the platform is unlikely to be forgotten the very minute &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4171\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4174,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}