{"id":5213,"date":"2019-08-04T17:52:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T00:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5213"},"modified":"2019-08-04T17:52:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T00:52:30","slug":"mario-lopez-vs-lgbtq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/08\/04\/mario-lopez-vs-lgbtq\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Lopez vs. LGBTQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cBut at the same time, my God, if you\u2019re 3 years old and you\u2019re saying you\u2019re feeling a<br \/>\ncertain way, or you think you\u2019re a boy or a girl or whatever the case may be,<br \/>\nI just think it\u2019s dangerous as a parent to make that determination then,<br \/>\nOK, well then you\u2019re gonna be a boy or a girl, whatever the case may be.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2013&nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>Mario Lopez&nbsp;<\/strong>shares his thoughts on transgender children during a podcast with pro-<strong>Trump<br \/>\n<\/strong>conservative&nbsp;<strong>Candace Owens<\/strong>.&nbsp; BTW, he later apologized, saying, \u201cThe comments I made were<br \/>\nignorant and insensitive, and I now have a deeper understanding of how hurtful they were.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Remember when summer used to be filled with reruns?&nbsp; That\u2019s how I\u2019m feeling about this week\u2019s column.&nbsp; Not that the stories are old, but many of them relate to days gone by.&nbsp; Take our opening quote from&nbsp;<strong>Mario Lopez<\/strong>, where he incoherently babbles about transgender children.&nbsp; Of course, Lopez has been a longstanding ally of the LGBTQ community and has since apologized.&nbsp; But his rambling reminded me of&nbsp;<strong><em>Miss South Carolina<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s answer when Mario hosted the&nbsp;<em>2007 Miss Teen USA&nbsp;<\/em>pageant \u2013 a moment touted by most as epic in pageant history.&nbsp; Back then, Mario tried to stifle a laugh.&nbsp; Watch both clips on&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"filth\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;and see if you can do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut at the same time, my God, if you\u2019re 3 years old and you\u2019re saying you\u2019re feeling a certain way, or you think you\u2019re a boy or a girl or whatever the case may be, I just think it\u2019s dangerous as a parent to make that determination then, OK, well then you\u2019re gonna be a<\/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-5213","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\/5213","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=5213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5222,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions\/5222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}