{"id":184623,"date":"2012-03-03T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/03\/on-to-the-november-referendum\/"},"modified":"2012-03-03T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T00:11:00","slug":"on-to-the-november-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/03\/on-to-the-november-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"On to the November Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Omalley has <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.baltimoresun.com\/2012-03-01\/news\/bs-md-marriage-signing-20120224_1_o-malley-signs-marriage-bill-marriage-equality\">signed Maryland&#8217;s gay marriage bill into law<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Amid cheers and camera flashes from a crush of onlookers, Gov. Martin O&#8217;Malley signed into law Thursday his bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Maryland \u2014 legislation that raises his national profile and, advocates say, gives momentum to those pushing similar measures in three states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all,&#8221; said O&#8217;Malley, giving brief remarks before signing the legislation. &#8220;If there is a thread that unites all of our work here together, it is the thread of human dignity. \u2026 Let&#8217;s sign the bill.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Opponents are already collecting signatures for a referendum, but I really think that they will lose the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The public views on gay marriage are shifting with remarkable speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Omalley has signed Maryland&#8217;s gay marriage bill into law: Amid cheers and camera flashes from a crush of onlookers, Gov. Martin O&#8217;Malley signed into law Thursday his bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Maryland \u2014 legislation that raises his national profile and, advocates say, gives momentum to those pushing similar measures in three states. &#8220;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":[971,1020,1030],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-legislation","category-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184623"}],"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=184623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}