{"id":325466,"date":"2010-02-14T23:48:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T04:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22217"},"modified":"2010-02-14T23:48:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T04:48:27","slug":"gay-troops-and-the-trouble-with-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/325466","title":{"rendered":"Gay Troops and the Trouble With Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/nathaniel-frank\/gay-troops-and-the-troubl_b_460291.html\">The Huffington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Remember the poll taken of enlisted personnel asking them if they  felt like invading Iraq? The one that political leaders and military  brass used to decide if they should pull the trigger or not? No, because  there wasn&#8217;t one. Sure, the military takes the temperature of its  troops to help ensure that whatever action its top-down command  structure orders is carried out as effectively as possible. But only  when it comes to the equal treatment of gays and lesbians does our  country see fit to dole out rights to an oppressed minority by asking  permission of the oppressing majority.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/11\/new-poll-shows-support-for-repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell\/?scp=1&#38;sq=poll%20gay%20military%20homosexual&#38;st=cse\" >comes word<\/a> that, after nearly two generations of a  vibrant gay rights movement, Americans are somehow confused about what a  &#8220;homosexual&#8221; is, throwing already shaky polling data into disarray&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Huffington Post: Remember the poll taken of enlisted personnel asking them if they felt like invading Iraq? The one that political leaders and military brass used to decide if they should pull the trigger or not? No, because there wasn&#8217;t one. Sure, the military takes the temperature of its troops to help ensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}