{"id":67906,"date":"2018-02-04T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T22:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67906"},"modified":"2018-02-04T20:21:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T01:21:51","slug":"london-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67906","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Heterosexuals close to getting right to have civil partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than three million heterosexual couples could be allowed to form civil partnerships under proposals backed by the government.<\/p>\n<p>A bill proposed by the Conservative MP Tim Loughton received an unopposed second reading yesterday. If passed, Mr Loughton said that the legislation would \u201ccorrect an unintended but glaring inequality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Extending civil partnerships to heterosexual couples is one of the five planks of The Times\u2019 Family Matters campaign for reform of family laws.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Loughton said: \u201cI am pleased that the government has accepted the wording of my bill and that it was passed unanimously and has passed through second reading&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/5aea3ae4-087c-11e8-baef-5a271462a43b\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than three million heterosexual couples could be allowed to form civil partnerships under proposals backed by the government. A bill proposed by the Conservative MP Tim Loughton received an unopposed second reading yesterday. If passed, Mr Loughton said that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67906\">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":[133,114,125,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-men","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67906","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=67906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67908,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67906\/revisions\/67908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}