{"id":5292,"date":"2017-07-14T11:48:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T16:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5292"},"modified":"2017-07-14T11:48:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T16:48:57","slug":"handel-with-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5292","title":{"rendered":"Handel with care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Handel, now member of the US Congress from Georgia, sat for an interview in which she was pressed for answers about gay marriage and gay adoption. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FooM_pH-2tw?ecver=1\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little long (well ok it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s five minutes). The interesting remark, for me at least today, comes at the end. Asked (at about 4:55) why she thinks gay parents are not as legitimate as heterosexual parents, she responds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a puzzling answer. In the first place, she certainly has a reason. She has even, earlier in the Q&amp;A, given it: Christianity demands it. Second, does anyone or rather can anyone hold a view for no reason at all? Is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ever an answer to such a question?<\/p>\n<p>I just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think so.<\/p>\n<p>This is just not the nature of beliefs. Try it yourself. You don&#8217;t of course have to articulate those beliefs, but they&#8217;re always there. Hers, I imagine, is just too alienating or silly or (more likely) question-begging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Handel, now member of the US Congress from Georgia, sat for an interview in which she was pressed for answers about gay marriage and gay adoption. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a video. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little long (well ok it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s five minutes). The interesting remark, for me at least today, comes at the end. Asked (at about 4:55) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5292\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Handel with care<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2196,2197,2195,178,2194],"class_list":["post-5292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-beliefs","tag-evidentialism","tag-gay-adoption","tag-gay-marriage","tag-karen-handel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5293,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions\/5293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}