{"id":610,"date":"2010-01-14T12:27:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T20:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/?p=610"},"modified":"2010-01-14T12:27:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T20:27:37","slug":"the-conservative-case-for-gay-marriage-in-newsweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/archives\/610","title":{"rendered":"The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage in Newsweek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/229957\">very good article<\/a> this week about gay marriage, specifically the upcoming federal challenge to California&#8217;s Proposition 8 being argued by Ted Olson.  The really interesting thing is that Olson is a political conservative who served under both Reagan and George W. Bush.  But he&#8217;s written a very well-reasoned and heartfelt argument as to why denying gays to marry is wrong, and he has a good track record in cases he&#8217;s argued, so it&#8217;ll be interesting to see what he does.  <\/p>\n<p>One of the more absurd things he points out is how there are currently 18,000 same-sex marriages in California, which occurred before Prop 8 and are recognized by the state.  But these same people, if they got divorced, could not remarry.  As he puts it, the situation in California is open to a good challenge, as it really &#8220;makes no sense to anyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek has a very good article this week about gay marriage, specifically the upcoming federal challenge to California&#8217;s Proposition 8 being argued by Ted Olson. The really interesting thing is that Olson is a political conservative who served under both Reagan and George W. Bush. But he&#8217;s written a very well-reasoned and heartfelt argument as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/archives\/610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage in Newsweek<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sandra-here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}