{"id":4417,"date":"2009-02-01T14:30:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T14:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/01\/new-hampshire-one-step-backwar\/"},"modified":"2009-02-01T14:30:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T14:30:44","slug":"new-hampshire-one-step-backwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/01\/new-hampshire-one-step-backwar\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire:  One step backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A bill that would have mandated that partners in civil unions be added to all state insurance laws was put on hold just as House committee was about to hold a hearing on the measure.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Edward Butler (D), the bill&#8217;s sponsor, pulled the legislation, saying there were other measures dealing with same-sex couples that should be considered first.<\/p>\n<p>Among those is a proposal to change New Hampshire&#8217;s year old civil union law to allow for full marriage. A hearing on that bill is scheduled for Feb. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have filed a bill that would start the process to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage and the legislature will consider a bill that would maintain civil unions and direct the government to recognize civil unions and gay marriages performed in states and countries where they are legal as civil unions in New Hampshire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.365gay.com\/news\/nh-gay-bill-shelved\/\">details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would have mandated that partners in civil unions be added to all state insurance laws was put on hold just as House committee was about to hold a hearing on the measure. Rep. Edward Butler (D), the bill&#8217;s sponsor, pulled the legislation, saying there were other measures dealing with same-sex couples that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/01\/new-hampshire-one-step-backwar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Hampshire:  One step backwards<\/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\/p5fhV1-19f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417"}],"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=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}