{"id":34145,"date":"2012-08-20T16:15:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T16:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nc_register_maine_referendum_will_present_another_challenge_to_marriage\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T16:15:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T16:15:55","slug":"nc_register_maine_referendum_will_present_another_challenge_to_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34145","title":{"rendered":"(NC Register) Maine Referendum Will Present Another Challenge to Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This November, Maine voters will decide if the state should allow marriage licenses to be issued to same-sex couples. The measure marks the first time supporters of same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d\u009d have proposed the question of legalization on a state ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal goes before voters of the Pine Tree State three years after residents passed a \u201cpeople\u2019s veto,\u201d\u009d effectively negating an effort by the Maine Legislature to legalize same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d\u009d earlier in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The campaigns both for and against the initiative play out in a national context this year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/maine-referendum-will-present-another-challenge-to-marriage\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This November, Maine voters will decide if the state should allow marriage licenses to be issued to same-sex couples. The measure marks the first time supporters of same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d\u009d have proposed the question of legalization on a state ballot. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34145\">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":[39,40,42,576,114,98,154,151,108,364,112,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-sexuality","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34145","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=34145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}