{"id":2003,"date":"2014-04-22T18:38:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T22:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wwe\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2014-04-22T18:39:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T22:39:49","slug":"steve-austin-supports-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/2014\/04\/22\/steve-austin-supports-same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Austin supports same-sex marriage (Listen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wwe\/files\/2014\/04\/steveaustin.jpg\" alt=\"steveaustin\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2004\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2014\/04\/steveaustin.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2014\/04\/steveaustin-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former WWE wrestler &#8220;Stone Cold&#8221; Steve Austin is the latest backer of same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Rattlesnake said the following on his podcast:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m for same-sex marriage,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe that any human being in America, any human being in the world, that wants to be married \u2026 if it&#8217;s the same-sex, more power to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t give a shit if two guys, two gals, guy-gal, whatever it is, I believe that any human being in America, or any human being in the goddamn world, that wants to be married.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it\u2019s the same-sex, more power to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TV9_ivcKZw0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat also chaps my ass, some of these churches, have the high horse that they get on and say \u2018we as a church do not believe in that&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich one of these motherf**kers talked to God and God said that same-sex marriage was a no can do? Can you verify? Can you give me some background on that 411?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have some damned good friends who are gay and I&#8217;m absolutely for same-sex marriage,\u201d said Austin.<\/p>\n<p>The comments by Austin were recorded last July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former WWE wrestler &#8220;Stone Cold&#8221; Steve Austin is the latest backer of same-sex marriage. The Texas Rattlesnake said the following on his podcast: \u201cI&#8217;m for same-sex marriage,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe that any human being in America, any human being in the world, that wants to be married \u2026 if it&#8217;s the same-sex, more power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[40],"coauthors":[2],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-wwe-topstory","tag-steve-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}