{"id":1760,"date":"2012-12-06T01:36:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T01:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/2012\/12\/06\/wherein-i-talk-about-ups\/"},"modified":"2012-12-06T01:36:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T01:36:37","slug":"wherein-i-talk-about-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wherein-i-talk-about-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein I talk about UPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Written: 12\/06\/2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UPS has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2012\/11\/ups-dumps-the-boy-scouts-over-its-anti-gay-policies.html\">stop funding the BSA<\/a>, until their discriminatory policies end.<\/p>\n<p>This however, is <a href=\"http:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/christian-group-warns-ups-watch-out-or.html\">not a rational reaction<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.899999618530273px; text-align: justify;\">For example, a day after the Human Rights Campaign repeated the charge that the Family Research Council was a &#8220;hate group,&#8221; an employee of another LGBT organization walked in to the headquarters of the Family Research Council, armed with 50 rounds of ammunition and a bagful of Chick-fil-A sandwiches, and began shooting the &#8220;haters&#8221; who worked there. According to Thomas Strobhar, President of the Corporate Morality Action Center, &#8220;UPS should be careful whom they support with money that belongs to all the shareholders. The Boys Scouts are a national treasure with legitimate interests regarding the safety of the scouts, while the Human Rights Campaign has contributed greatly to a lack of civility in public discourse.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>All my best,<\/p>\n<p>The King of Spades<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written: 12\/06\/2012 UPS has decided to stop funding the BSA, until their discriminatory policies end. This however, is not a rational reaction: For example, a day after the Human Rights Campaign repeated the charge that the Family Research Council was a &#8220;hate group,&#8221; an employee of another LGBT organization walked in to the headquarters of the Family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-king-of-spades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}