{"id":66079,"date":"2017-12-07T16:20:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T21:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66079"},"modified":"2017-12-07T19:53:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T00:53:50","slug":"abc-in-australia-same-sex-marriage-signed-into-law-by-governor-general-first-weddings-to-happen-from-january-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66079","title":{"rendered":"(ABC) In Australia Same-sex marriage signed into law by Governor-General, first weddings to happen from January 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">Same-sex couples who have already married overseas will have their relationships recognised in Australia from midnight tonight.<\/p>\n<p>After the drama and excitement of the\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-12-07\/same-sex-marriage-bill-passes-house-of-representatives\/9235560\" target=\"_self\">same-sex marriage bill passing the House of Representatives chamber<\/a>\u00a0yesterday, the Governor-General signed off on it this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney-General George Brandis said couples had to give a month&#8217;s notice of their intention to marry, so\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-12-07\/when-can-you-lodge-your-notice-for-intended-marriage-forms\/9238438\" target=\"_self\">the first same-sex weddings will be able to happen from January 9<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Brandis said he became quite emotional when the bill passed and the public galleries erupted with cheers and singing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-12-08\/same-sex-marriage-legal-after-gg-approval\/9239334\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Same-sex couples who have already married overseas will have their relationships recognised in Australia from midnight tonight. After the drama and excitement of the\u00a0same-sex marriage bill passing the House of Representatives chamber\u00a0yesterday, the Governor-General signed off on it this morning.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66079\">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":[576,204,168,114,98,151,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-australia-nz","category-ethics-moral-theology","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\/66079","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=66079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66081,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66079\/revisions\/66081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}