{"id":6172,"date":"2014-02-09T22:59:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T03:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6172"},"modified":"2014-02-09T22:59:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T03:59:02","slug":"our-leaders-stupid-crocodiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6172","title":{"rendered":"Our Leaders: Stupid Crocodiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reflect a moment on the Olympics, the US and many Western leaders have decided &#8220;not to attend&#8221;, Google followed suit with a rainbow Olympic rings display, and publicly gay (privately &#8230; who knows) stuffed shirts were sent as part of the US delegation and many others. This was supposedly in response to how Russia is perceived to deal with public homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the following. Make an honest list of the top 10 economic, liberty, social, legal, and cultural issues facing the Russian people and the Russian Federation today. Order these by which have the highest priority and will do the greatest good. If you are honest (and I will charitably assume that is the case), gay rights did not appear on the list. Extend it to 20. Gosh. Still not there. In fact, I&#8217;d be willing to bet, if you put the time and effort it that gay rights might not even (if you are honest) make the top 100.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230;. why is that a putative issue for our leaders? Could it be because all politics is local and this is a safe way of pretending to do something about gay issues in their country without having to actually, you know, do anything about those issues? Crocodile tears all around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflect a moment on the Olympics, the US and many Western leaders have decided &#8220;not to attend&#8221;, Google followed suit with a rainbow Olympic rings display, and publicly gay (privately &#8230; who knows) stuffed shirts were sent as part of the US delegation and many others. 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