{"id":179725,"date":"2017-11-14T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/14\/fabulous-2\/"},"modified":"2017-11-14T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T01:48:00","slug":"fabulous-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/14\/fabulous-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabulous!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/P8b8rfE.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/P8b8rfE.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>Australia just had an official postal poll on gay marriage.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2017\/nov\/15\/australia-says-yes-to-same-sex-marriage-in-historic-postal-survey\">The bigots lost decisively<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Australia has taken a decisive step towards legislating marriage equality by Christmas after 61.6% of voters in an unprecedented national postal survey approved a change to the law to allow couples of the same sex to marry.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">The result, announced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday, will lead to consideration of a same-sex marriage bill in parliament with the prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/malcolm-turnbull\">Malcolm Turnbull<\/a>, promising marriage equality should be law by Christmas. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">With a turnout of 79.5% the result in the voluntary survey is considered a highly credible reflection of Australian opinion and gives marriage equality advocates enormous momentum to achieve the historic social reform. Australia\u2019s chief statistician, David Kalisch, announced the results at a press conference in Canberra at 10am on Wednesday, revealing 7,817,247 people voted in favour and 4,873,987 voted against. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two snaps up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia just had an official postal poll on gay marriage. The bigots lost decisively: Australia has taken a decisive step towards legislating marriage equality by Christmas after 61.6% of voters in an unprecedented national postal survey approved a change to the law to allow couples of the same sex to marry.The result, announced by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[474,413,375,436],"class_list":["post-179725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-civil-rights","tag-elections","tag-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}