{"id":547370,"date":"2010-04-29T15:04:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T19:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011735120_referendum71.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-29T15:04:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T19:04:01","slug":"referendum-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547370","title":{"rendered":"Referendum 71"},"content":{"rendered":"

Safety from harassment starts with exposing R-71 signers<\/strong><\/p>\n

In today\u2019s letters section, one writer mentions the \u201cgay agenda.\u201d [\u201cPrivacy protects people from harassment and intimidation,\u201d Northwest Voices, April 28.]<\/p>\n

I have noticed those who bring up the \u201cgay agenda\u201d are always a little vague on what exactly the \u201cgay agenda\u201d is. I would like to clear that up.<\/p>\n

The \u201cgay agenda\u201d is a home, a family, a job and two cars in the garage. It sounds a lot like the American dream, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

The same writer also said, \u201cThe central nugget here is safety from harassment.\u201d I could not agree more and we could take a small step toward that ideal by exposing the harassers who signed Referendum 71.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Howard Hance, Snohomish<\/em><\/p>\n

Hate mongering<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although he is a Republican, I support state Attorney General Rob McKenna on his stand in the Supreme Court regarding openness of the names on the R-71 Petition protest.<\/p>\n

I have yet to hear \u2014in my 82 years \u2014of anyone being harassed because of what he or she signed on a petition.<\/p>\n

In my view, the ne\u2019er-do-wells who organized the petition (there were three), all of which had deplorable records concerning their marriages and finances, know they are wrong in further protesting human rights. They are hypocrites of the worst caliber.<\/p>\n

Why are there protests regarding human rights for gay couples, in this case, their \u201cmarriage\u201d? Does that take anything away from us? Will we have to support many unwanted children or spend dollars we do not have on police, domestic violence offenders and murders? Does it hurt us to let them share property and personal things in a will or otherwise? You know and I know it does not; the name of their game is hate mongering.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Leonard Larson, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Safety from harassment starts with exposing R-71 signers In today\u2019s letters section, one writer mentions the \u201cgay agenda.\u201d [\u201cPrivacy protects people from harassment and intimidation,\u201d Northwest Voices, April 28.] I have noticed those who bring up the \u201cgay agenda\u201d are always a little vague on what exactly the \u201cgay agenda\u201d is. I would like to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547370","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\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}