{"id":5381,"date":"2011-07-14T02:01:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T09:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2011-07-14T02:08:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T09:08:59","slug":"republican-psuedo-christians-hate-manatees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/14\/republican-psuedo-christians-hate-manatees\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Pseudo-Christians Hate Manatees!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Hard as this my be to believe, but even these least offensive of all creatures is not immune from Talibangelical TEAbuggery.\u00a0 God forbid that Bubba the Bagger should be inconvenienced to stop the harm irresponsible recreation practices are causing to manatees.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"14manatee\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/14manatee.jpg\" alt=\"14manatee\" width=\"360\" height=\"248\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>Jesus apparently hated manatees, according to a new Tea Party platform circulating around Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Originating from the Citrus County Tea Party Patriots group, teabaggers are crying about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service&#8217;s intent to place restrictions against boating and other things near the city of Crystal River &#8212; and now they&#8217;re trying to get all Florida Tea Partiers to ask congress to block the wildlife service, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/environment\/wildlife\/article1180112.ece\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And why would they be trying to do this? Because protecting animals like manatees is against the Bible and the Bill of Rights, according to one Tea Party leader.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot elevate nature above people,&#8221; Citrus County Tea Party Patriots leader Edna Mattos told the paper. &#8220;<strong>That&#8217;s against the Bible and the Bill of Rights<\/strong>.&#8221;\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.browardpalmbeach.com\/pulp\/2011\/07\/tea_party_manatees_against_bible_jurassic_park.php\" target=\"_blank\">Broward-Palm Beach New Times<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Republican Party and their pseudo-Christian storm troopers have no conscience, compassion, or shame.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard as this my be to believe, but even these least offensive of all creatures is not immune from Talibangelical TEAbuggery.\u00a0 God forbid that Bubba the Bagger should be inconvenienced to stop the harm irresponsible recreation practices are causing to manatees. Jesus apparently hated manatees, according to a new Tea Party platform circulating around Florida. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/14\/republican-psuedo-christians-hate-manatees\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}