{"id":3513,"date":"2014-05-20T22:58:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T02:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2014-05-20T22:58:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T02:58:14","slug":"wapo-picks-up-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3513","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Picks Up the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WaPo<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m naturally pleased that the Washington Post<\/em> picked up the story on the controversy over Aisha Braveboy<\/a> and her lack of support for LGBT rights in the General Assembly, including a lengthy quote from the post on this blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the same time, it’s frustrating that they linked to Del. Braveboy’s defense of her position and missed the actual controversy. Specifically, Del. Braveboy’s story over her change of heart is not credible<\/a> because the incident that she describes as the “defining moment” in her “evolution” occurred 11 months after the marriage equality referendum in which she claims to have voted yes.<\/p>\n

Moreover, now Del. Braveboy is claiming that she really supported marriage equality but just not this bill:<\/p>\n

\u201cI look at nearly every bill and I make judgments based on the policy and they way the bill was drafted and written,\u201d Braveboy said Tuesday. \u201cWhile I may have supported the concept, I didn\u2019t support the bill.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Odd since she was viewed as a leader of opponents in the House of Delegates and certainly had no interest in passing a pro-marriage bill, or even milder pro-LGBT legislation in earlier sessions. If she “supported the concept,” she hid it well.<\/p>\n

So while I am grateful to the Washington Post<\/em> for giving the issue more coverage, it feels like a swing and a miss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m naturally pleased that the Washington Post picked up the story on the controversy over Aisha Braveboy and her lack of support for LGBT rights in the General Assembly, including a lengthy quote from the post on this blog. At the same time, it’s frustrating that they linked to Del. Braveboy’s defense of her position … Continue reading WaPo Picks Up the Story<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[730,391],"tags":[1656,1471,937],"class_list":["post-3513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aisha-braveboy","category-attorney-general","tag-aisha-braveboy","tag-marriage-equality","tag-washington-post-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-UF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3518,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}