{"id":20902,"date":"2010-07-24T02:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T02:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns-battle_lines_drawn_on_n-j-_same_sex_marriage_debate\/"},"modified":"2010-07-24T02:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T02:00:34","slug":"rns-battle_lines_drawn_on_n-j-_same_sex_marriage_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20902","title":{"rendered":"RNS&#8211;Battle lines drawn on N.J. same sex marriage debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With same-sex marriage legislation defeated in the state Senate, Gov. Chris Christie on record opposing it, and a proposal to put the question to voters going nowhere fast, hundreds of supporters and opponents of gay marriage squared off Tuesday (July 20) to prepare for the next expected front in the battle: the state Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>What originally was supposed to be a small rally by the National Organization for Marriage turned into competing protests after Garden State Equality, the state&#8217;s largest gay rights organization, brought in a larger crowd to counter it.<\/p>\n<p>National Organization for Marriage president Brian Brown said his group stopped in New Jersey as part of its 19-state bus tour because he was afraid the state would legalize gay marriage by judicial fiat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/Religion-News\/Battle-lines-drawn-on-NJ-gay-marriage-debate.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With same-sex marriage legislation defeated in the state Senate, Gov. Chris Christie on record opposing it, and a proposal to put the question to voters going nowhere fast, hundreds of supporters and opponents of gay marriage squared off Tuesday (July<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20902\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,576,114,98,151,108,112,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}