{"id":5104,"date":"2012-02-24T06:50:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T12:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2012-02-24T06:50:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T12:50:53","slug":"california-doma-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/california-doma-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"California DOMA Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had missed this, thanks to commenter <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/2012\/02\/23\/maryland-bill-passes-senate\/#comment-53178\">Random Factor<\/a> for pointing it out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal judge on Wednesday declared the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional and ordered the federal government to extend health benefits to the same-sex spouse of a San Francisco lawyer employed by the federal courts.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White said the refusal of the Office of Personnel Management to enroll 9th Circuit attorney Karen Golinski&#8217;s spouse in the federal agency&#8217;s benefits program violated her constitutional right to equal protection under the law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2012\/02\/defense-of-marriage-act-unconstitutional-federal-judge-rules-in-california-case.html\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department sat this one out, but House Republicans did get involved.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had missed this, thanks to commenter Random Factor for pointing it out: A federal judge on Wednesday declared the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional and ordered the federal government to extend health benefits to the same-sex spouse of a San Francisco lawyer employed by the federal courts. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/california-doma-ruling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California DOMA Ruling<\/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":[],"tags":[406,896,312],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1kk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104"}],"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=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}