{"id":50506,"date":"2015-06-26T19:09:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T19:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_article_on_same-sex_marriage_decision\/"},"modified":"2015-06-26T19:09:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T19:09:42","slug":"washington_post_article_on_same-sex_marriage_decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50506","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Article on the US Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday delivered a historic victory for gay rights, ruling 5 to 4 that the Constitution requires that same-sex couples be allowed to marry no matter where they live and that states may no longer reserve the right only for heterosexual couples.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s action marks the culmination of an unprecedented upheaval in public opinion and the nation\u2019s jurisprudence. Advocates called it the most pressing civil rights issue of modern times, while critics said the courts had sent the country into uncharted territory by changing the traditional definition of marriage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/gay-marriage-and-other-major-rulings-at-the-supreme-court\/2015\/06\/25\/ef75a120-1b6d-11e5-bd7f-4611a60dd8e5_story.html?tid=sm_tw\">Read it all<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/14pdf\/14-556_3204.pdf\">the full text of the decision is there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday delivered a historic victory for gay rights, ruling 5 to 4 that the Constitution requires that same-sex couples be allowed to marry no matter where they live and that states may no longer reserve the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50506\">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":[39,40,50,576,209,175,168,114,98,151,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50506","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=50506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}