{"id":2797,"date":"2010-03-16T00:35:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T04:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2010-03-16T00:35:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T04:35:47","slug":"jd-hayworths-marriage-menagerie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/03\/16\/jd-hayworths-marriage-menagerie\/","title":{"rendered":"J.D. Hayworth&#8217;s Marriage Menagerie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J.D. Hayworth, in an effort to out-wingnut John McCain in Arizona&#8217;s Senatorial primary, is claiming that legalized same-sex marriage can lead to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/03\/15\/jd-hayworth-gay-marriage_n_498973.html\">man-horse nuptials.<\/a> This is what he had to say during his Rick Santorum-like &#8220;man on dog&#8221; moment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You see, the Massachusetts Supreme Court, when it started this move toward same-sex marriage, actually defined marriage &#8212; now get this &#8212; it defined marriage as simply, &#8220;the establishment of intimacy.&#8221; Now how dangerous is that? I mean, I don&#8217;t mean to be absurd about it, but I guess I can make the point of absurdity with an absurd point &#8212; I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m very happily married to a human male right now.  But just in case it doesn&#8217;t work out, I think this is wonderful news:<\/p>\n<p>Hayworth&#8217;s Marriage Menagerie (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to be wed to a cat?<br \/>\nOr a horse, or a dog, or a bat?<br \/>\nOr even an ass?<br \/>\nSimply move out to Mass.<br \/>\nHayworth says it&#8217;s okay. So that&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.D. Hayworth, in an effort to out-wingnut John McCain in Arizona&#8217;s Senatorial primary, is claiming that legalized same-sex marriage can lead to man-horse nuptials. This is what he had to say during his Rick Santorum-like &#8220;man on dog&#8221; moment: You see, the Massachusetts Supreme Court, when it started this move toward same-sex marriage, actually defined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640,68,40,10,2,168,6,7,3,69],"tags":[1222,1220,1223,642,1225,1219,2773,1226,1013,857,1227,2877,643],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-rights","category-homophobia","category-john-mccain","category-judiciary","category-law","category-legal-limericks","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-wingnuts","tag-animals-satire","tag-arizona","tag-bestiality-humor","tag-gay-marriage","tag-homosexuality-satire","tag-jd-hayworth","tag-john-mccain","tag-judiciary-humor","tag-law-humor","tag-massachusetts","tag-nuptials-humor","tag-rick-santorum","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}