{"id":184334,"date":"2012-05-30T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/30\/why-im-voting-in-november\/"},"modified":"2012-05-30T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T03:15:00","slug":"why-im-voting-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/30\/why-im-voting-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;m Voting in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the bigots in Maryland have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/bs-md-same-sex-signatures-submitted-20120529,0,5986836.story\">turned in sufficient signatures to put a repeal of same sex marriage on the ballot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Activists working to repeal Maryland&#8217;s same-sex marriage law have collected more than twice the signatures needed for a referendum \u2014 likely ensuring that the measure will be on the ballot for voters to decide in November.<\/p>\n<p>The law&#8217;s opponents submitted 122,481 signatures in favor of a referendum; 55,736 are required. If enough are verified as legitimate, as expected, Maryland will be in the center of a national debate on same-sex marriage, with groups on both sides preparing to spend millions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m still debating between writing in Stewart\/Colbert or Colbert\/Stewart, but I&#8217;m voting against the hate amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the bigots in Maryland have turned in sufficient signatures to put a repeal of same sex marriage on the ballot: Activists working to repeal Maryland&#8217;s same-sex marriage law have collected more than twice the signatures needed for a referendum \u2014 likely ensuring that the measure will be on the ballot for voters to decide &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,971,1000,1030,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-civil-rights","category-elections","category-lgbtq","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184334"}],"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=184334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}