{"id":4410,"date":"2010-02-12T15:59:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2011-02-17T14:57:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T19:57:33","slug":"poll-75-back-gays-in-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/02\/12\/poll-75-back-gays-in-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: 75% back gays in military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4411\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/02\/gays-in-the-military-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"gays in the military\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>A Washington Post-ABC News polls shows three-quarters of Americans say they <a title=\"approve\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/11\/AR2010021104873.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">approve<\/a> of gays serving openly in the military.\u00a0 Political science Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>,\u00a0author of &#8220;<em>Only in America?<\/em> <em>American Politics in Comparative Perspective,&#8221;<\/em> says it reflects the fact that American society was becoming more tolerant while our politics were becoming less so.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;While candidates were running on the three Gs (God, Gays and Guns), ordinary Americans were deciding they could live in peace and mutual respect with gay fellow citizens.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Washington Post-ABC News polls shows three-quarters of Americans say they approve of gays serving openly in the military.\u00a0 Political science Professor Graham Wilson,\u00a0author of &#8220;Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective,&#8221; says it reflects the fact that American society was becoming more tolerant while our politics were becoming less so. &#8220;While candidates were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2350,1163,2349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8130,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/8130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}