{"id":192404,"date":"2009-04-03T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/03\/gay-marriage-news\/"},"modified":"2009-04-03T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T22:50:00","slug":"gay-marriage-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/03\/gay-marriage-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Marriage News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20090403\/NEWS\/90403010\">Iowa Supreme Court rules gay marriage legal<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20090402\/NEWS03\/90402022\/-1\/NEWS05\">Vermont house passed a same-sex marriage bill<\/a>, though the governor is still talking about vetoing it, because it&#8217;s a distraction during the economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the only way that it is a distraction is if he vetoes it, but he has to win a Republican primary with lots of bigots voting.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that Vermont, which is highly dependent on tourism, would eschew this, which would give a boost to that industry, is, of course, nuts, but the Governor Jim Douglas is a &#8216;Phant, after all.<\/p>\n<p>The down side to this is that we are going to be spending a lot more on wedding gifts.<\/p>\n<p>But seriously, it stuns me how quickly the forces of reason and hope are beating back the voices of fear and bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the black civil rights movement, this is light speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa Supreme Court rules gay marriage legal, and the Vermont house passed a same-sex marriage bill, though the governor is still talking about vetoing it, because it&#8217;s a distraction during the economic crisis. Of course, the only way that it is a distraction is if he vetoes it, but he has to win a &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-192404","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\/192404"}],"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=192404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}