{"id":21097,"date":"2010-08-05T03:02:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T03:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_judge_overturns_california_same_sex_marriage_ban\/"},"modified":"2010-08-05T03:02:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T03:02:05","slug":"ap_judge_overturns_california_same_sex_marriage_ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21097","title":{"rendered":"AP: Judge overturns California Same Sex marriage ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn] Walker&#8230;. found that the gay marriage ban violates the Constitution&#8217;s due process and equal protection clauses while failing &#8220;to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples,&#8221; the judge wrote in his 136-page ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides previously said an appeal was certain if Walker did not rule in their favor. The case would go first to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, then the Supreme Court if the high court justices agree to review it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100804\/ap_on_re_us\/us_gay_marriage_trial\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn] Walker&#8230;. found that the gay marriage ban violates the Constitution&#8217;s due process and equal protection clauses while failing &#8220;to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21097\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21097","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21097","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=21097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}