{"id":83244,"date":"2021-10-16T13:29:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T13:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=83244"},"modified":"2021-10-16T13:29:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T13:29:20","slug":"north-carolina-lt-gov-mark-robinson-stands-by-lgbtq-filth-comments-amid-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=83244","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson stands by LGBTQ+ &#8216;filth&#8217; comments amid controversy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/10\/11\/nc-lt-gov-mark-robinson-defends-lgbtq-filth-comment\/6090552001\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today: <\/a>&#8220;North Carolina Lt. Gov.\u00a0Mark Robinson has\u00a0doubled down after\u00a0his comments calling transgenderism\u00a0and homosexuality \u201cfilth\u201d drew widespread rebukes and calls for him to resign.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robinson, a Republican, made the comments in June at the Asbury Baptist church in Seagrove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth,\u201d he told the audience. \u201cAnd yes, I called it filth. And if you don\u2019t like it that I called it filth, come see me and I\u2019ll explain it to you.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robinson holds the second-highest office in the state, and he would take over if Gov. Roy Cooper is ever unable to perform his duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His words went viral last week after the\u00a0group Right Wing Watch tweeted a clip of his speech. In recent days, scores of advocacy groups and politicians \u2013 from Raleigh to the White House \u2013 have denounced what Robinson said.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today: &#8220;North Carolina Lt. Gov.\u00a0Mark Robinson has\u00a0doubled down after\u00a0his comments calling transgenderism\u00a0and homosexuality \u201cfilth\u201d drew widespread rebukes and calls for him to resign.\u00a0 Robinson, a Republican, made the comments in June at the Asbury Baptist church in Seagrove. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83245,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83244\/revisions\/83245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}