{"id":551,"date":"2004-02-21T12:57:17","date_gmt":"2004-02-21T20:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/02\/der_grope_and_duh_law\/"},"modified":"2004-02-21T12:57:17","modified_gmt":"2004-02-21T20:57:17","slug":"der_grope_and_duh_law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/02\/der_grope_and_duh_law.html","title":{"rendered":"DER GROPE AND DUH LAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Der (&#8220;No Two Ways About It&#8221;) Gropenfuhrer renegged on&nbsp;a <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/quickstart.clari.net\/qs_se\/webnews\/wed\/av\/Qus-politics.RPTw_DN7.html\"><B><E\nM><FONT color=#003399>promised investigation<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> into<br \/>\nallegations&nbsp;of his&nbsp;sexual, potentially criminal&nbsp;behavior toward <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2003\/10\/06\/1065292493528.html?from=storyrhs\"><B><E\nM><FONT color=#003399>more than a dozen women<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, but he won&#8217;t<br \/>\nstand for anyone mocking the law when it comes to gay marriage. &#8220;It&#8217;s time for the city to stop<br \/>\ntraveling down this dangerous path of ignoring the rule of law,&#8221; he told a convention of<br \/>\nRepublicans on Friday. &#8220;That&#8217;s my <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2004\/02\/11\/national\/main599586.shtml\"><B><EM><FO\nNT color=#003399>message to San Francisco<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>.&#8221;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>California columnist <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.ocweekly.com\/ink\/04\/23\/lost-washburn.php\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Jim Washburn disagrees<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>: &#8220;An 86-year-old sleazeball<br \/>\ncan marry an 18-year-old dominatrix, and that is sanctified. Larry King can marry for the seventh<br \/>\ntime, and it&#8217;s sanctified. Britney Spears can get married and annulled quicker than you can say<br \/>\n&#8216;publicity whore,&#8217; and it is sanctified. Yet a gay couple that has stuck it out through better and<br \/>\nworse for 40 years, being exemplary neighbors and citizens the whole while, poses a threat to<br \/>\nmarriage? It is legal for them to marry, of course, just not to each other. They could go out this<br \/>\nafternoon and marry a total stranger, so long as it&#8217;s someone of the opposite sex. That&#8217;s the law.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s left to mock?&#8221;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Der (&#8220;No Two Ways About It&#8221;) Gropenfuhrer renegged on&nbsp;a promised investigation into allegations&nbsp;of his&nbsp;sexual, potentially criminal&nbsp;behavior toward more than a dozen women, but he won&#8217;t stand for anyone mocking the law when it comes to gay marriage. &#8220;It&#8217;s time for the city to stop traveling down this dangerous path of ignoring the rule of law,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-8T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}