{"id":3091,"date":"2008-01-25T06:52:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T11:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/gay-acting_straight-acting_they_hate_them_all.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T06:52:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T11:52:16","slug":"gay-acting_straight-acting_they_hate_them_all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/gay-acting_straight-acting_they_hate_them_all.html","title":{"rendered":"Gay-Acting, Straight-Acting, They Hate Them All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Name of group redacted because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/70165\">they&#8217;re total douchebags who don&#8217;t deserve any more press than they already get<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A fundamentalist group known for its virulent anti-gay stance is planning to picket the upcoming funeral of actor Heath Ledger, who played a gay cowboy in the 2005 film &#8220;Brokeback Mountain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Members of the [media-whoring Kansas church] said they would protest the funeral at the Frank F. Campbell Funeral Home in Manhattan. A date has not yet been set.<\/p>\n<p>In a message posted on the group&#8217;s Web log, members promised to bring signs reading &#8220;Brokeback in Hell.&#8221; The message said Ledger was in hell because of his role in a film that taught the world &#8220;it&#8217;s OK to be gay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The ADL, which monitors anti-Semitism as well as the activities of hate groups, said the church gained notoriety when followers picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard with signs reading &#8220;No Fags in Heaven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since 2005, church members have picketed funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan to demonstrate their opposition to America&#8217;s tolerance of homosexuality.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name of group redacted because they&#8217;re total douchebags who don&#8217;t deserve any more press than they already get: A fundamentalist group known for its virulent anti-gay stance is planning to picket the upcoming funeral of actor Heath Ledger, who played a gay cowboy in the 2005 film &#8220;Brokeback Mountain.&#8221; Members of the [media-whoring Kansas church] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}