{"id":8226,"date":"2009-04-09T06:20:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T11:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=8226"},"modified":"2010-12-25T02:33:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T07:33:37","slug":"opposing-same-sex-marriage-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/04\/09\/opposing-same-sex-marriage-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposing Same Sex Marriage in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua F. sent in this image from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20090403\/NEWS\/90403013\"><em>Des Moines Register<\/em><\/a> of an individual protesting the state Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling to legalize gay marriage:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8227 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/bilde.jpg\" alt=\"bilde\" width=\"318\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/bilde.jpg 318w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/bilde-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Culver being told to &#8220;man up&#8221; is Iowa&#8217;s Democratic governor. Joshua says,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just think it&#8217;s kind of telling that Culver is being urged to preserve the traditional definition of marriage with the phrase &#8220;man up.&#8221; \u00a0Only by tapping into honest masculinity can Culver fend off effeminate men and mannish women who want to marry each other&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is a great example of the assumption that masculinity automatically includes homophobia; being a &#8220;real man&#8221; means not just being straight, but being opposed to gays and gay rights.<\/p>\n<p>Also&#8230;same-sex animals do mate and raise young; you can see several examples <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/01\/13\/destabilizing-heteronormativity\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua F. sent in this image from the Des Moines Register of an individual protesting the state Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling to legalize gay marriage: The Culver being told to &#8220;man up&#8221; is Iowa&#8217;s Democratic governor. Joshua says, I just think it&#8217;s kind of telling that Culver is being urged to preserve the traditional definition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[272,85,54],"class_list":["post-8226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marriagefamily","tag-politics","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8229,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions\/8229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}