{"id":25245,"date":"2010-02-15T16:33:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/02\/15\/al-franken-and-ugandas-death-t\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T16:33:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:33:44","slug":"al-franken-and-ugandas-death-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/15\/al-franken-and-ugandas-death-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Franken and Uganda&#8217;s Death to Gays Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Al Franken allies with Tom Coburn to oppose Uganda&#8217;s death-to-homosexuals bill<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Al Franken has signed on to a Senate resolution condemning a bill before Uganda&#8217;s Parliament that would outlaw homosexuality and make it a crime punishable by death. (Hat tip: Minnesota Independent.)<\/p>\n<p>What makes the resolution sponsored by Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold so interesting is that it allies Franken, an unabashed liberal, with co-sponsor Tom Coburn, a dyed-in-the-wool right-wing Republican. The common ground: Saving lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.alfranken.com\/2010\/02\/12\/city-pages-al-franken-allies-with-tom-coburn-to-oppose-ugandas-death-to-homosexuals-bill\/\">Details here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Franken allies with Tom Coburn to oppose Uganda&#8217;s death-to-homosexuals bill Sen. Al Franken has signed on to a Senate resolution condemning a bill before Uganda&#8217;s Parliament that would outlaw homosexuality and make it a crime punishable by death. (Hat tip: Minnesota Independent.) What makes the resolution sponsored by Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold so interesting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/15\/al-franken-and-ugandas-death-t\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Al Franken and Uganda&#8217;s Death to Gays Bill<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6zb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}