{"id":682736,"date":"2026-06-03T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/682736\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:18:07","slug":"rep-ogles-deletes-homophobic-tweet-blames-staff-amid-rare-gop-pushback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/682736\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Ogles deletes homophobic tweet, blames staff amid rare GOP pushback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AHXB7KQ7AJG7LE6XKRCXTMDNOU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tennessee) is blaming his staff for a homophobic post made on his X account, as Republicans issue rare criticism of one of their member\u2019s social media activity.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PEIYKSBWLZGXBD6U7VYYF5FLXU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A post on Ogles\u2019s official X account Tuesday stated: \u201cHomosexuality has no place in America. Happy Nuclear Family Month.\u201d The post was seemingly in response to the start of Pride Month, which celebrates the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tennessee) is blaming his staff for a homophobic post made on his X account, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-682736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}