{"id":3369,"date":"2011-05-04T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/05\/you-may-want-to-sit-down-for-this.html"},"modified":"2011-05-04T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T21:10:00","slug":"you-may-want-to-sit-down-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/05\/you-may-want-to-sit-down-for-this.html","title":{"rendered":"You may want to sit down for this"},"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>But<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_thelookout\/20110504\/us_yblog_thelookout\/minnesota-lawmakers-gay-marriage-defense-goes-viral\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> it looks like<\/a> gay rights activists and supporters of gay marriage are applauding a Minnesota lawmaker\u2019s speech defending gay marriage.\u00a0 Yeah, hard to believe isn\u2019t it.\u00a0 These stories are pure propaganda.\u00a0 There\u2019s no news in them.\u00a0 But then I don\u2019t think <em>The Lookout<\/em> is really news.\u00a0 But then again, I\u2019m not sure actual news exists anymore. Anyhoo, take a smart phone and tape anyone defending gay marriage and post in on Youtube and you will have any number of folks viewing it and cheering if they already support gay marriage.\u00a0 Just like you will with anything on Youtube. 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