{"id":2159,"date":"2013-01-23T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/01\/unprecedented-courage-in-america.html"},"modified":"2013-01-23T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T18:53:00","slug":"unprecedented-courage-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/01\/unprecedented-courage-in-america.html","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented courage in America"},"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>Yep, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/lookout\/high-school-senior-comes-gay-while-accepting-award-230305217.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to Yahoo News<\/a> (and you know, it\u2019s got to be true), a high school student named Jacob Rudolph came out as\u00a0openly\u00a0LGBT while accepting an award! \u00a0Wow. \u00a0In this day and age, standing up in a public school and declaring your same sex attraction must be tough. \u00a0 It\u2019s as courageous as standing up in the 1950s and saying God bless America. \u00a0It boggles the mind. \u00a0But that\u2019s how propaganda works. \u00a0It\u2019s how revolutions work. \u00a0You never, ever admit victory. \u00a0To the media and others passionately advocating the homosexual agenda, there have been no victories. \u00a0We still live in the Soviet darkness, with people who have same sex attraction being forced to crawl along the floorboards and in the gutters as gangs of homophobes prowl the streets, seeking innocent victims to devour. \u00a0Funny. \u00a0Worrisome, but funny.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, 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