{"id":1093,"date":"2015-06-29T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2015-06-29T00:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T07:00:45","slug":"with-liberty-and-justice-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/06\/29\/with-liberty-and-justice-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"With Liberty and Justice For All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think God may be gay.\u00a0 For many years, I&#8217;ve been involved in various <em>Gay Pride <\/em>festivals around the country where rain was predicted.\u00a0 And then, as if a sign from the Lord above, the rains would stop just in time for the festivities.\u00a0 For weeks, we&#8217;ve been waiting for the <em>Supreme Court of the United States <\/em>to rule on the legality of same-sex marriage.\u00a0 And when did it come down?\u00a0 Friday, June 26th &#8211; two days before the anniversary of the <em>Stonewall Riots <\/em>and on the eve of <em>Gay Pride <\/em>in San Francisco and New York City.\u00a0 Timing is everything.<\/p>\n<p>The not completely surprising ruling by SCOTUS led to lots of celebrating &#8211; including the <em>White House <\/em>being bathed in rainbow-colored lights.\u00a0 Congratulatory <em>Tweets <\/em>came in from some of our queer <em>Broadway <\/em>icons, like <strong>Patti LuPone<\/strong>, <strong>Chita Rivera<\/strong>, <strong>Bernadette Peters<\/strong>, and even <strong>Liza Minnelli<\/strong>, who herself has been in two gay marriages.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it can&#8217;t all be good news.\u00a0 While same-sex marriage was legalized around the country, two states have held out.\u00a0 As of this writing, Louisiana and Mississippi have refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.\u00a0 The Louisiana attorney general said that nothing in the <em>Supreme Court <\/em>ruling made the order &#8220;effective immediately&#8221;.\u00a0 Mississippi&#8217;s attorney general echoed those sentiments &#8211; and then had his slave bring him another mint julep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think God may be gay.\u00a0 For many years, I&#8217;ve been involved in various Gay Pride festivals around the country where rain was predicted.\u00a0 And then, as if a sign from the Lord above, the rains would stop just in time for the festivities.\u00a0 For weeks, we&#8217;ve been waiting for the Supreme Court of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}