{"id":5041,"date":"2011-10-20T18:52:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T23:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=926"},"modified":"2011-10-20T18:52:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T23:52:25","slug":"the-secular-side-of-marriage-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/20\/the-secular-side-of-marriage-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secular Side of Marriage Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Minnesota Atheists has been fighting for decades to keep religion out of government, according to August Berkshire, the group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s president.<\/p>\n<p>When three same-sex couples were denied marriage licenses in Hennepin County for their sexual orientation, filed a lawsuit in March 2010 to strike down the Minnesota Defense of Marriage Act and then lost, the atheists took notice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavendermagazine.com\/our-affairs\/the-secular-side-of-marriage-equality\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Atheists has been fighting for decades to keep religion out of government, according to August Berkshire, the group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s president. When three same-sex couples were denied marriage licenses in Hennepin County for their sexual orientation, filed a lawsuit in March 2010 to strike down the Minnesota Defense of Marriage Act and then lost, the atheists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/20\/the-secular-side-of-marriage-equality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Secular Side of Marriage Equality<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1jj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041"}],"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=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}