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Perhaps just a bit narrower than the organizational name implies.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jillmatrix.com\/2002_03_01_archive.php#10490723\">JillMatrix<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re going to create a group called &#8220;The South Florida Human Rights Council,&#8221; then it&#8217;s probably bad form to eject three gay rights activists from your inaugural meeting because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24317,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/peter-sprigg-is-a-dolt.html","url_meta":{"origin":2125,"position":0},"title":"Peter Sprigg is a Dolt","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Dec-11 2:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sprigg, of the Family Research Council, is appalled at the \"fanatical\" \"cultural imperialism\" of the Obama Administration saying that respect for the human rights of gays in a given country will be taken into consideration in foreign aid decisions.1. 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