{"id":4090,"date":"2008-12-22T08:34:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T16:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2008-12-22T08:36:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T16:36:41","slug":"hoehn-prop-8-protest-makes-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4090","title":{"rendered":"Hoehn Prop. 8 Protest Makes USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/blacklistx-large.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/blacklistx-large.jpg','popup','width=490,height=327,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/blacklistx-large-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Blacklistx-Large\" \/><\/a>Last March <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2127\" target=\"_blank\">we mentioned<\/a><\/strong> that <strong>Robert Hoehn<\/strong>, the co-owner of Carlsbad&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoehnmotors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hoehn Motors<\/a><\/strong> donated $25,000 in support of banning gay marriage (Prop. 8). Recently, his business has been picketed and he&#8217;s not happy about it, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2008-12-21-blacklist_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just hate being pigeonholed as a hate monger or bigot,&#8221; says Robert Hoehn, who contributed $25,000 to the campaign for Prop 8, which amended California&#8217;s Constitution to exclude same-sex marriage. &#8220;I have friends in the gay community, and I don&#8217;t think any of them would say that. . . . Hoehn has seen protesters outside his Carlsbad, Calif., car dealerships, his name and business have appeared on websites publicizing donors, and he has received &#8220;the most vitriolic kinds of e-mails, letters and phone calls.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess Mr. Hoehn is experiencing some of the costs associated with supporting legislation that denies the personal rights of others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2008-12-21-blacklist_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last March we mentioned that Robert Hoehn, the co-owner of Carlsbad&#8217;s Hoehn Motors donated $25,000 in support of banning gay marriage (Prop. 8). Recently, his business has been picketed and he&#8217;s not happy about it, according to a story in USA Today. I just hate being pigeonholed as a hate monger or bigot,&#8221; says Robert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}