{"id":174,"date":"2003-11-18T12:36:22","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T17:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/a_victory_for_gay_rights\/"},"modified":"2003-11-18T12:36:22","modified_gmt":"2003-11-18T17:36:22","slug":"a_victory_for_gay_rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/a_victory_for_gay_rights\/","title":{"rendered":"A Victory for Gay Rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On its face, <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=514&#038;e=3&#038;u=\/ap\/20031118\/ap_on_re_us\/gay_marriage_9\">it would appear so<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Massachusetts&#8217; highest court ruled 4-3 Tuesday that the state&#8217;s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gave lawmakers 180 days to fix the problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But I wonder if the political opposition galvanized by such a ruling might not outweigh the fruits of the legal victory.<br \/>\nI think gay rights activists might be better off seeking incremental civil union protections rather than trying to attain legally-recognized &#8220;marriage&#8221; in one fell swoop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/a_victory_for_gay_rights\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to A Victory for Gay Rights?\"><p>On its face, it would appear so: Massachusetts&#8217; highest court ruled 4-3 Tuesday that the state&#8217;s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gave lawmakers 180 days to fix the problem. But I wonder if the political opposition galvanized by such a ruling might not outweigh the fruits of the legal victory. I think gay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}