{"id":5383,"date":"2012-05-31T12:48:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T17:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2012-05-31T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T17:48:24","slug":"court-strikes-down-key-part-of-doma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/court-strikes-down-key-part-of-doma\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Strikes Down Key Part of DOMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/05\/31\/u-s-defense-of-marriage-act-denying-federal-benefits-to-married-gay-couples-unconstitutional-appeals-court\/\">U.S. Defense of Marriage Act denying federal benefits to married gay couples unconstitutional: Appeals court<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BOSTON \u2014 A U.S. appeals court Thursday declared that the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutionally denies federal benefits to married gay couples, a groundbreaking ruling all but certain to wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The unanimous ruling said the 1996 law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman discriminates against gay couples because it doesn\u2019t give them the same rights and privileges as heterosexual couples.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ruling was very narrowly defined and did not address the specific issue of same sex marriage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Defense of Marriage Act denying federal benefits to married gay couples unconstitutional: Appeals court BOSTON \u2014 A U.S. appeals court Thursday declared that the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutionally denies federal benefits to married gay couples, a groundbreaking ruling all but certain to wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court. The unanimous ruling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/court-strikes-down-key-part-of-doma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Court Strikes Down Key Part of DOMA<\/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":[874,230,896],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1oP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383"}],"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=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}