{"id":195867,"date":"2008-06-09T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/09\/california-gay-marriage-amendment-may-also-bans-straight-marriage\/"},"modified":"2008-06-09T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T22:30:00","slug":"california-gay-marriage-amendment-may-also-bans-straight-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/09\/california-gay-marriage-amendment-may-also-bans-straight-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"California Gay Marriage Amendment May Also Bans Straight Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/06\/07\/AR2008060701531.html?hpid=moreheadlines\">the Talibaptists may have screwed up<\/a>, bit time:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Should voters approve the measure, Cruz said, offering another potential outcome, it could inadvertently affect traditional marriages. That&#8217;s because the amendment would undo only part of the court&#8217;s decision &#8212; allowing gay couples to marry &#8212; but not the rest, which says that same-sex couples cannot be recognized differently than opposite-sex couples, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;ve got those two rules &#8212; that you can&#8217;t let them marry, but you can&#8217;t give different options to gay and straight couples &#8212; then one possible outcome, if the amendment were to pass, is that no one could get married in California,&#8221; Cruz said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oopsie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the Talibaptists may have screwed up, bit time: Should voters approve the measure, Cruz said, offering another potential outcome, it could inadvertently affect traditional marriages. That&#8217;s because the amendment would undo only part of the court&#8217;s decision &#8212; allowing gay couples to marry &#8212; but not the rest, which says that same-sex couples &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1000,1030,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-elections","category-lgbtq","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195867"}],"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=195867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}