{"id":2872,"date":"2012-01-16T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/01\/phil-lawler-holds-up-a-mirror.html"},"modified":"2012-01-16T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T12:28:00","slug":"phil-lawler-holds-up-a-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/01\/phil-lawler-holds-up-a-mirror.html","title":{"rendered":"Phil Lawler holds up a mirror"},"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>And asks gay rights activists to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/otn.cfm?id=883\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> take a look<\/a>.\u00a0 Indeed, who is the extremist in the debate?\u00a0 Our cultural narrative says evil religious types are trying to take away the right of anyone to get married, that they are against \u2018marriage equality.\u2019\u00a0 Truth be told, Sa<span style=\"background-color: white\">ntorum was onto something when he pointed out, in so many words, that unless you support any combination of adults getting married for any reason whatsoever, you are also against marriage equality for all.\u00a0 You\u2019re simply trying to impose your values of who should and shouldn\u2019t be able to be married on the rest of the country.\u00a0 Since this is actually true, and flies in the face of national pro-gay indoctrination, the MSM and other pro-gay outlets pounced.\u00a0 Here\u2019s Phil Lawler, taking a good look at the entire hypocrisy and laughable narrative of modern \u2018tolerance\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And asks gay rights activists to take a look.\u00a0 Indeed, who is the extremist in the debate?\u00a0 Our cultural narrative says evil religious types are trying to take away the right of anyone to get married, that they are against \u2018marriage equality.\u2019\u00a0 Truth be told, Santorum was onto something when he pointed out, in so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Phil Lawler holds up a mirror<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"And asks gay rights activists to take a look.&nbsp; 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