{"id":2321,"date":"2017-08-15T12:14:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T17:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2017-08-15T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T17:14:43","slug":"celebrate-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=2321","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Diversity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnewsj.com\/news\/44224\/celebrating-diversity-in-support-of-lgbt-community-in-clinton-county\">http:\/\/www.wnewsj.com\/news\/44224\/celebrating-diversity-in-support-of-lgbt-community-in-clinton-county<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12 June, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Commentary<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate diversity!\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 Its great to be perverse! (I mean <em>diverse<\/em>.\u00a0 Yeah!)<\/p>\n<p>L-G-B-T-Q-B-M-O-U-S-E! . . .\u00a0 &#8220;Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse forever let us hold our banner high!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Get the beat there, you folks who watched that weekly show long ago. \u00a0\u00a0You gotta hold that second &#8220;B&#8221; for a few counts.\u00a0 \u00a0(Sorry, I am talking to the sexagenarian and older crowd;\u00a0 that song went on featuring the smiling Annette Funicello, one of the Mouseketeers,\u00a0 singing gleefully about Mickey Mouse during the weekly showing of The Mickey Mouse Club in the mid-twentieth century.)<\/p>\n<p>I needed another letter, so I threw in the &#8220;B&#8221; to fill in a missing note.\u00a0 Why not <em>Bestiality<\/em>? Hey!\u00a0 We&#8217;re all open-minded, Lawless liberals here in Wilmington.\u00a0 Yeah!<\/p>\n<p>I took note of the half-page splash in the WNJ (13 June) in which readers were invited to &#8220;Celebrate diversity&#8221;!\u00a0\u00a0 A jubilant crowd was featuring, bedecked in rainbow colors (Why ought the sodomites be granted exclusive claims to the beautiful rainbow?\u00a0 What a world!).\u00a0 How about Christians activating and wearing rainbow colored t-shirts with a message on them:\u00a0 those two sodomite figures with a circle around it and a line drawn threw it.\u00a0 (I will buy!)<\/p>\n<p>Yeah!\u00a0 And what does that mean in the year of our Lord 2017?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Diversity&#8221; is the new euphemism for very old sin of sodomy in particular and Lawlessness in general.<\/p>\n<p>And we are bidden to celebrate it?<\/p>\n<p>Nope.\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t celebrate that kind of &#8220;diversity.&#8221;\u00a0 We execrate it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.wnewsj.com\/news\/44224\/celebrating-diversity-in-support-of-lgbt-community-in-clinton-county 12 June, 2017 Commentary Celebrate diversity!\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 Its great to be perverse! (I mean diverse.\u00a0 Yeah!) L-G-B-T-Q-B-M-O-U-S-E! . . .\u00a0 &#8220;Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse forever let us hold our banner high!&#8221; Get the beat there, you folks who watched that weekly show long ago. \u00a0\u00a0You gotta hold that second &#8220;B&#8221; for a few counts.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,30,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2322,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}