{"id":65365,"date":"2017-11-14T21:06:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T02:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65365"},"modified":"2017-11-15T16:13:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:13:55","slug":"nyt-australia-votes-forsame-sex-marriage-clearing-path-to-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65365","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Australia Votes for Same-Sex Marriage, Clearing Path to Legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A solid majority of Australians voted in favor of same-sex marriage in a historic survey that, while not binding, paves the way for Parliament to legally recognize the unions of gay and lesbian couples.<\/p>\n<p>Of 12.7 million Australians who took part in the government survey, 61.6 percent voted yes and 38.4 percent voted no, officials announced on Wednesday morning. Participation was high, with 79.5 percent of voting-age Australians sending back their postal ballots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Australian people have spoken, and they have voted overwhelmingly \u2018yes\u2019 for marriage equality,\u201d said Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who called the survey in a move described by advocates as a delay tactic devised to appease his party\u2019s far-right faction. \u201cThey voted \u2018yes\u2019 for fairness, they voted \u2018yes\u2019 for commitment, they voted \u2018yes\u2019 for love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/14\/world\/australia\/yes-same-sex-marriage-gay.html?_r=0\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solid majority of Australians voted in favor of same-sex marriage in a historic survey that, while not binding, paves the way for Parliament to legally recognize the unions of gay and lesbian couples. Of 12.7 million Australians who took<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65365\">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":[576,175,204,168,114,98,177,151,108,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-australia-nz","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65365","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=65365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65368,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65365\/revisions\/65368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}