{"id":1741,"date":"2013-10-08T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/10\/but-seriously.html"},"modified":"2013-10-08T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T21:31:00","slug":"but-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/10\/but-seriously.html","title":{"rendered":"But seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>If you want to know how we could have overturned the common sense understanding of human nature to allow gay marriage, just watch <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.msnbc.com\/2013\/10\/07\/obama-weighs-in-on-redskins-name-controversy\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">our illustrious leader weigh in<\/a> on the great Redskin Crisis of the 21st Century.\u00a0 I mean, many Native Americans don\u2019t care, and some want it to stop.\u00a0 And yet that small, small, small \u2013 and I mean small \u2013 grain of sand sized group who demands change will get it.\u00a0 How?\u00a0 I leave that up to the good readers to figure.\u00a0 Just know that this trend, not of a group winning the hearts and minds of the masses, but appealing to key institutions of influence and power, is one that has come to define modern democratic processes. 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