{"id":175,"date":"2006-06-07T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/06\/07\/off-topic-ok-to-discriminate-referendum-defeated\/"},"modified":"2006-06-07T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T19:18:00","slug":"off-topic-ok-to-discriminate-referendum-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/06\/07\/off-topic-ok-to-discriminate-referendum-defeated\/","title":{"rendered":"Off Topic: &quot;OK to discriminate&quot; referendum defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great state of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.experiencewashington.com\/\">Washington<\/a> passed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leg.wa.gov\/pub\/billinfo\/2005-06\/Pdf\/Bills\/House%20Passed%20Legislature\/2661-S.PL.pdf\">law adding\u00a0 &quot;sexual orientation&quot; to the list of groups provided anti-discrimination protection<\/a>\u00a0 It&#8217;s a sad state of affairs when these measures, of any form, are needed to ensure that people are civil to other people; however there are clear needs for such measures.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katu.com\/stories\/86531.html\">polictician<\/a> who thought it would be a grand idea to sponsor a referendum to put to ballot a measure that specifically excludes these protections for gay and lesbians citizens.\u00a0 Sad to say more than 100,000 of my fellow Washingtonians signed the measure, but calm rationale heads prevailed:\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/273028_eyman07.html\">Referendum 65 will not appear on the ballot<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great state of Washington passed a law adding\u00a0 &quot;sexual orientation&quot; to the list of groups provided anti-discrimination protection\u00a0 It&#8217;s a sad state of affairs when these measures, of any form, are needed to ensure that people are civil to other people; however there are clear needs for such measures. There&#8217;s this polictician who thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}