{"id":5313,"date":"2012-05-08T20:39:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T01:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2012-05-08T20:39:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T01:39:57","slug":"north-carolina-bans-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/08\/north-carolina-bans-same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Bans Same Sex Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at this disturbing image: <!--more--><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3313\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/2012\/05\/08\/north-carolina-bans-same-sex-marriage\/gay_marriage_amendment_0fe50\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3313\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3313\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/mitt-brownie\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mitt-brownie.png?fit=402%2C296&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"402,296\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mitt-brownie\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mitt-brownie.png?fit=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mitt-brownie.png?fit=402%2C296&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/files\/2012\/05\/Gay_Marriage_Amendment_0fe50-500x353.jpg?resize=500%2C353\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gay_Marriage_Amendment_0fe50\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3313\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Separation of Church and State?  Not in North Carolina. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>North Carolina joins the rest of the South in banning same sex marriage at the constitutional level.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/post\/north-carolina-passes-gay-marriage-ban-amendment-one\/2012\/05\/08\/gIQAHYpfBU_blog.html?wpisrc=al_comboNP\">Details<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>North Carolina already had a statute banning gay marriage. Amendment One declares that \u201cmarriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state\u201d \u2014 vague language that opponents say could threaten domestic partnership protections for all couples while closing the door to any sort of same-sex unions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at this disturbing image:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[230],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1nH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313"}],"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=5313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}