{"id":5802,"date":"2012-01-02T00:16:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T06:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2012-01-02T00:16:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T06:16:45","slug":"an-extraordinary-year-for-gay-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/02\/an-extraordinary-year-for-gay-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"An Extraordinary Year For Gay Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1800\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/2012\/01\/02\/an-extraordinary-year-for-gay-rights\/navy-first-kiss\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1800\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/files\/2012\/01\/navy-first-kiss-300x197.jpg?resize=300%2C197\" alt=\"navy girl kissing her signifant other\" title=\"navy-first-kiss\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1800\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first first kiss with girls. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lead\">NPR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/12\/31\/144520538\/2011-an-extraordinary-year-for-gay-rights?sc=tw\">notes<\/a> that 2011 was an extraordinary year for gay rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In September, the end of the military&#8217;s &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; policy allowed gay, lesbian and bisexual people to serve openly. And just this month, two female sailors became the first to share the Navy tradition of a &#8220;first kiss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This summer, New York became the sixth and largest state yet \u2014 along with Washington, D.C. \u2014 to allow same-sex marriage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year, 2012, we have an anti-gay marriage amendment on the ballot in Minnesota.  We will fight that and it won&#8217;t pass, but when that happens, it will be one of the few referendum type decisions that is pro-gay instead of anti-gay.  And thus, we will continue to see a turn of the tide, a sea change, and since we are on a streak of nautical metaphors, a lot more Navy First Kisses!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR notes that 2011 was an extraordinary year for gay rights. &#8220;In September, the end of the military&#8217;s &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; policy allowed gay, lesbian and bisexual people to serve openly. And just this month, two female sailors became the first to share the Navy tradition of a &#8220;first kiss.&#8221; This summer, New York &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/02\/an-extraordinary-year-for-gay-rights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Extraordinary Year For Gay Rights<\/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":[230],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1vA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802"}],"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=5802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}