{"id":577,"date":"2014-02-11T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=577"},"modified":"2014-02-11T15:20:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T21:20:54","slug":"dilbert-comic-strip-mocks-indias-recent-anti-gay-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/577","title":{"rendered":"Dilbert Comic Strip Mocks India&#8217;s Recent Anti-Gay Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comic strip\u00a0<em>Dilbert\u00a0<\/em>by Scott Adams recently took a stand for gay rights, specifically in response to the anti-gay legislation that passed in India. On <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/comic\/2014-02-07\/\">February 7<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/comic\/2014-02-08\/\">February 8<\/a>, Adams created strips that made the long running character Asok gay while commenting on the situation. In response to the all-to-expected firestorm, Adams posted a preliminary response on his blog saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today Asok the intern came out. Tomorrow he&#8217;ll have some things to say about the so-called government of India.<\/p>\n<p>Cue the inevitable cries of &#8220;Stop being political! You&#8217;re ruining Dilbert!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to address that right now.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only political if there&#8217;s someone on the other side of the debate. In this case, no one favors a government deciding which sexual acts among consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes are allowed and which are punishable by jail.<\/p>\n<p>If I am wrong, and you favor the government restricting what kind of sex you can have with another consenting adult, please proudly state your case. I&#8217;m listening.<\/p>\n<p>Cue cricket sounds&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comic strip\u00a0Dilbert\u00a0by Scott Adams recently took a stand for gay rights, specifically in response to the anti-gay legislation that passed in India. On February 7 and February 8, Adams created strips that made the long running character Asok gay while commenting on the situation. In response to the all-to-expected firestorm, Adams posted a preliminary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}