{"id":7619,"date":"2009-04-07T12:41:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2009-04-07T12:58:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:58:31","slug":"same-sex-marriage-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/same-sex-marriage-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Same-Sex Marriage in the News (but not the Newsroom)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of movement on the SSM front today (and this week in general). \u00a0Today, Vermont&#8217;s legislature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/08\/us\/08vermont.html?ref=global-home\">passed a bill allowing same-sex marriage<\/a>. \u00a0Also, Washington D.C.&#8217;s city council\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/07\/AR2009040702200.html?hpid=topnews\">passed a bill recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriages<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Meanwhile, last week the Iowa Supreme Court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/04\/us\/04iowa.html?hp\">unanimously ruled that same-sex couples had a right to marry under the state constitution<\/a>. \u00a0And the California court will rule on the Prop 8 appeal in the next two months. \u00a0(I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concurringopinions.com\/archives\/2009\/03\/prop_8_oral_arg.html\">don&#8217;t think the appeal will succeed.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>There is no official statement that I&#8217;m aware of about these recent developments (the Newsroom is silent so far; the most recent releases on Prop 8 or SSM are two month old discussions of Prop 8 filings). \u00a0Will the church weigh in on these new \u00a0developments with official statements or California-like campaigns? \u00a0One thing is for certain &#8212; the last word on the topic is not yet in, and there will probably be lots of news in this area within the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of movement on the SSM front today (and this week in general). \u00a0Today, Vermont&#8217;s legislature passed a bill allowing same-sex marriage. \u00a0Also, Washington D.C.&#8217;s city council\u00a0passed a bill recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriages.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Meanwhile, last week the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously ruled that same-sex couples had a right to marry under the state constitution. \u00a0And the California court will rule on the Prop 8 appeal in the next two months. \u00a0(I don&#8217;t think the appeal will succeed.) There is no official statement that I&#8217;m aware of about these recent developments (the Newsroom is silent so far; the most recent releases on Prop 8 or SSM are two month old discussions of Prop 8 filings). \u00a0Will the church weigh in on these new \u00a0developments with official statements or California-like campaigns? \u00a0One thing is for certain &#8212; the last word on the topic is not yet in, and there will probably be lots of news in this area within the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-7619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics","tag-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7626,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions\/7626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}