{"id":7386,"date":"2012-06-16T18:24:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T18:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7386"},"modified":"2012-06-16T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T18:25:08","slug":"offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/offensive\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Offensive&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mike-Callton.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mike-Callton-300x252.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mike Callton\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mike-Callton-300x252.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mike-Callton.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20120614\/POLITICS02\/206140467\/1361\/Lawmaker-barred-from-speaking-over--vagina--comment\">Via <em>Detroit News<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lansing &#8211; House Republicans prohibited state Rep. Lisa Brown from speaking on the floor Thursday after she ended a speech Wednesday against a bill restricting abortions by referencing her female anatomy.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, a West Bloomfield Democrat and mother of three, said a package of abortion regulation bills would violate her Jewish religious beliefs and that abortions be allowed in cases where it is required to save the life of the mother.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finally, Mr. Speaker, I&#8217;m flattered that you&#8217;re all so interested in my vagina, but &#8216;no&#8217; means &#8216;no,'&#8221; Brown said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s comment prompted a rebuke Thursday by House Republicans, who wouldn&#8217;t allow her to voice her opinion on a school employee retirement bill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What she said was offensive,&#8221; said Rep. Mike Callton, R-Nashville. &#8220;It was so offensive, I don&#8217;t even want to say it in front of women. I would not say that in mixed company.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It rarely fails does it? The moment that some public figure starts jabbering on about something that he or she finds \u201coffensive\u201d, an attack on free speech is never far behind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Detroit News: Lansing &#8211; House Republicans prohibited state Rep. Lisa Brown from speaking on the floor Thursday after she ended a speech Wednesday against a bill restricting abortions by referencing her female anatomy. Brown, a West Bloomfield Democrat and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/offensive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[855,55,542],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7386"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7405,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions\/7405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}