{"id":26356,"date":"2009-04-18T20:15:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T20:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/18\/my-home-state-shows-up-texas-g\/"},"modified":"2009-04-18T20:15:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T20:15:45","slug":"my-home-state-shows-up-texas-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/18\/my-home-state-shows-up-texas-g\/","title":{"rendered":"My Home State Shows Up Texas:  Gay Marriage Bill Unveiled by African American Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As expected, New York Gov. David Paterson (D) unveiled legislation Thursday morning to allow same-sex couples to marry in the Empire State.<\/p>\n<p>Standing beside New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R), openly gay Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D) and state leaders and union leaders, Paterson said &#8220;Marriage equality is about basic civil rights and freedom. That is why we stand together today to embrace civil rights for every New Yorker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paterson&#8217;s bill would amend the domestic relations law allowing civil marriages between same-sex couples, and he called on the Legislature to approve the bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.365gay.com\/news\/paterson-unveils-gay-marriage-bill\/\">details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, New York Gov. David Paterson (D) unveiled legislation Thursday morning to allow same-sex couples to marry in the Empire State. Standing beside New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R), openly gay Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D) and state leaders and union leaders, Paterson said &#8220;Marriage equality is about basic civil rights and freedom. That &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/18\/my-home-state-shows-up-texas-g\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Home State Shows Up Texas:  Gay Marriage Bill Unveiled by African American Governor<\/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":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6R6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26356"}],"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=26356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}