{"id":590,"date":"2006-06-20T04:17:48","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T03:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=590"},"modified":"2007-07-06T18:50:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T17:50:58","slug":"the-department-of-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/06\/20\/the-department-of-prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Department of Prejudice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So 2.5 million people party in Brazil&#8217;s gay parade (below). Meanwhile, in that bastion of freedom to the north, it transpires that the Pentagon still <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060619\/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe\/military_gays;_ylt=AgKVG1YTgEQWaWGOQe11f2hp24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA\" target=\"_blank\">regards being gay as a mental illness<\/a>. Illegal wars, torture and imprisonment without trial are perfectly sane behaviour, no doubt. I wonder what the Pentagon thinks of the gay British soldiers currently serving alongside the US army in Iraq. And what do those soldiers feel about being insulted like this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So 2.5 million people party in Brazil&#8217;s gay parade (below). Meanwhile, in that bastion of freedom to the north, it transpires that the Pentagon still regards being gay as a mental illness. Illegal wars, torture and imprisonment without trial are perfectly sane behaviour, no doubt. I wonder what the Pentagon thinks of the gay British &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/06\/20\/the-department-of-prejudice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Department of Prejudice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-9w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}