{"id":29708,"date":"2011-12-05T22:04:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T22:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/for_delawares_same-sex_couples_end_of_wait_for_marriage_appears_near\/"},"modified":"2011-12-05T22:04:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T22:04:22","slug":"for_delawares_same-sex_couples_end_of_wait_for_marriage_appears_near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29708","title":{"rendered":"For Delaware&#39;s same-sex couples, end of wait for marriage Appears near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first such ceremony in the state is likely to be during the New Year&#8217;s Day worship service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Wilmington, where Wilmington attorneys Lisa Goodman and Drewry Fennell will say their vows in front of their families, friends and fellow congregants.<\/p>\n<p>Goodman is president of Equality Delaware, the advocacy group that drafted the law and steered it through the General Assembly. Fennell is executive director of the Delaware Criminal Justice Council.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To have someone ask for a Sunday morning service made perfect sense to me &#8212; that&#8217;s when my wedding was,&#8221; said the Rev. Patricia Downing, rector at Trinity. &#8220;It&#8217;s when the community gathers traditionally, and it&#8217;s a wonderful witness to the fact that these relationships are lived out in community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delmarvanow.com\/article\/20111204\/NEWS01\/111204007\/DELAWARE-state-s-same-sex-couples-end-wait-near\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first such ceremony in the state is likely to be during the New Year&#8217;s Day worship service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Wilmington, where Wilmington attorneys Lisa Goodman and Drewry Fennell will say their vows in front of their<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29708\">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":[36,48,39,40,576,66,114,183,98,184,151,108,112,619,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-state-government","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29708","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=29708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}