{"id":1490,"date":"2005-02-09T17:22:35","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T22:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/the_spread_of_freedom\/"},"modified":"2005-02-09T17:22:35","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T22:22:35","slug":"the_spread_of_freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/02\/the_spread_of_freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spread Of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . <a title=\"Alabama Lawmaker Proposes Gay Book Ban\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsfa.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=2920970\">into Red State America<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One Alabama lawmaker has proposed a bill that may yank &#8220;The Color Purple,&#8221; and many other classic works, from public bookshelves.<br \/>\nDistrict 62 Representative, Gerald Allen, says he wants to ban books that, &#8220;&#8230;sanction, recognize, foster, or promote a lifestyle or actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws of the state.&#8221;  Allen says it falls right in line with the proposed ban on gay marriage. &#8220;A society cannot sustain itself through activities such as this,&#8221; says Allen, &#8220;and for us to promote it with public dollars just doesn&#8217;t make sense.&#8221;  For many, the proposed law itself doesn&#8217;t make sense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps we could make a big bonfire in the public square to rid ourselves of illegal literature.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2005\/02\/09.html\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/02\/the_spread_of_freedom\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to The Spread Of Freedom\"><p>. . . into Red State America: One Alabama lawmaker has proposed a bill that may yank &#8220;The Color Purple,&#8221; and many other classic works, from public bookshelves. District 62 Representative, Gerald Allen, says he wants to ban books that, &#8220;&#8230;sanction, recognize, foster, or promote a lifestyle or actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}