{"id":3898,"date":"2010-10-18T01:21:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T05:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2010-10-18T01:21:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T05:21:04","slug":"ken-buck-gay-alcoholism-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/10\/18\/ken-buck-gay-alcoholism-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Gay Bunk From Ken Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Ken Buck debated Sen. Michael Bennet (D) during Sunday&#8217;s <em>Meet the Press<\/em> Colorado Senate debate, and things didn&#8217;t go well for him.   When host David Gregory asked whether being gay is a choice, Buck said yes, and added: &#8220;I think that birth has an influence&#8230;like  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_10\/026169.php\">alcoholism and some other things, but I think that basically, you have a choice.&#8221;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>That leads me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Gay Bunk From Ken Buck<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Buck spewed some anti-gay bunk:<br \/>\nCompared gayness to being a drunk,<br \/>\nThen went on to say gays<br \/>\nChoose their gay life-style ways.<br \/>\nPlease don&#8217;t vote for that gay-bashing punk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Ken Buck debated Sen. Michael Bennet (D) during Sunday&#8217;s Meet the Press Colorado Senate debate, and things didn&#8217;t go well for him. When host David Gregory asked whether being gay is a choice, Buck said yes, and added: &#8220;I think that birth has an influence&#8230;like alcoholism and some other things, but I think that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,124,21,640,20,6,7,3,12,69],"tags":[192,961,1426,325,194,774,1225,1424,1427,1319,1425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898"}],"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=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}