{"id":1771,"date":"2008-03-14T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/14\/greek-lesbian-couple-to-test-m\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T12:00:29","slug":"greek-lesbian-couple-to-test-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/14\/greek-lesbian-couple-to-test-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Lesbian Couple To Test Marriage Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A lesbian couple will become the first same-sex couple in Greece to marry when they exchange vows in a civil ceremony next week in an Athens suburb.The LGBT rights group OLKE said Thursday it had found a loophole in a 26 year old update of the Greek civil marriage law that refers only to participating &#8220;persons,&#8221; without specifying gender.OLKE said that by not naming gender the law, albeit inadvertently, allows same-sex marriage.The organization did not name the lesbians who will test the law, but said that the left-of-center mayor of the Athens suburb of Kessariani has agreed to perform the ceremony.&#8221;I have no objection to celebrating this union so long as the law is respected,&#8221; the mayor, Spyros Tzokas, told the Ta Nea daily.Had the group not found a friendly mayor it was prepared to go to court.&#8221;If the (municipalities) don&#8217;t give us the OK, the next step will be legal action,&#8221; OLKE spokeswoman Evangelia Vlami told The Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/365gay.com\/Newscon08\/03\/031308gr.htm\">Read the rest here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lesbian couple will become the first same-sex couple in Greece to marry when they exchange vows in a civil ceremony next week in an Athens suburb.The LGBT rights group OLKE said Thursday it had found a loophole in a 26 year old update of the Greek civil marriage law that refers only to participating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/14\/greek-lesbian-couple-to-test-m\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Greek Lesbian Couple To Test Marriage Law<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-sz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}