{"id":2217,"date":"2015-04-21T06:35:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T10:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2015-04-21T06:36:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T10:36:01","slug":"state-rep-gary-glenn-travels-back-in-time-to-meet-thomas-jefferson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2217","title":{"rendered":"State Rep Gary Glenn Travels Back in Time to Meet Thomas Jefferson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/JPA002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2218\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/JPA002.jpg\" alt=\"State Rep Gary Glenn Travels Back in Time to Meet Thomas Jeffers\" width=\"560\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/JPA002.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/JPA002-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2015\/04\/JPA002.jpg&amp;name=State Rep Gary Glenn Travels Back in Time to Meet Thomas Jefferson...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pretty soon (this week, I think), the United States Supreme Court will determine whether Michigan&#8217;s 2004 ban on same-sex marriage is constitutional. When a case gets on the Supreme Court schedule, citizens and groups are free to file a brief to advocate for one side or the other. Briefs generally have no real effect on the justices themselves, but they can reveal a lot about the thinking and motivations of the people who file them.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan&#8217;s current leading defender of moral righteousness, Gary Glenn, <a title=\"Gary Glenn submits argument for same-sex marriage ban to Supreme Court\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/saginaw\/index.ssf\/2015\/04\/gary_glenns_group_submits_argu.html\" target=\"_blank\">filed such a brief <\/a>on behalf of the American Family Association of Michigan. In it, he clings to various questionable arguments (the majority rules of 2004 trumps the majority rules of 2015, gay marriage is a slippery slope to polygamy, etc.), but the most audacious\u00a0to me was that the Founders of this nation would be\u00a0on his side \u2014 it&#8217;s pretty much a direct quote from Mr. Glenn in panel 2. There is so much wrong with that, I had to send him back in time for Mr. Jefferson to, um, straighten him out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty soon (this week, I think), the United States Supreme Court will determine whether Michigan&#8217;s 2004 ban on same-sex marriage is constitutional. When a case gets on the Supreme Court schedule, citizens and groups are free to file a brief to advocate for one side or the other. Briefs generally have no real effect on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}