{"id":8587,"date":"2009-06-04T18:17:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T23:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=8587"},"modified":"2009-06-04T19:17:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T00:17:05","slug":"live-free-or-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/live-free-or-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Free or Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a good week for the gay rights movement.<!--more-->  On Monday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the_press_office\/Presidential-Proclamation-LGBT-Pride-Month\">President Obama declared that June 2009 is LGBT Pride Month.<\/a>  Also Monday came word of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/01\/us\/01nevada.html\">Nevada legislature overriding the governor&#8217;s veto on a Domestic Partnership law in Nevada<\/a>.  But the real capstone came yesterday, when, after some back-and-forth and amendments, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/04\/us\/04marriage.html\">New Hampshire&#8217;s governor signed the same sex marriage law that the legislature had passed earlier<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>The New Hampshire law was passed by the legislature, and it includes extensive protections for religious organizations.  Thus, two of the common themes in the church&#8217;s Proposition 8 campaign &#8212; that same-sex marriage is an antidemocratic imposition by judges, and that same-sex marriage will force churches or church-owned institutions to accept same-sex marriage contrary to their doctrine &#8212; do not seem to apply in the New Hampshire case.  One suspects that this is the future of the movement &#8212; democratically passed marriage statutes with broad respect for religious organizations.  <\/p>\n<p>As they say in New Hampshire, live free or die.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a good week for the gay rights movement.<\/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-8587","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\/8587","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=8587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8589,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587\/revisions\/8589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}