{"id":231,"date":"2010-08-05T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T07:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/?p=231"},"modified":"2010-08-06T01:53:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T14:53:31","slug":"proposition-8-sputtering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/2010\/08\/proposition-8-sputtering\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposition 8 sputtering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From news.com.au\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/world\/californias-gay-marriage-ban-overturned\/story-e6frfkyi-1225901418115\">Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adni\u00ada\u2019s gay mar\u00adriage ban over\u00adturned<\/a><\/em>: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Judge Walk\u00ader was with\u00ader\u00ading in his crit\u00adi\u00adcism of Propo\u00adsi\u00adtion&nbsp;8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPropo\u00adsi\u00adtion 8 fails to advance any ratio\u00adnal basis in sin\u00adgling out gay men and les\u00adbians for denial of a mar\u00adriage license,\u201d he wrote in his judgement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state does not have an inter\u00adest in enforc\u00ading pri\u00advate moral or reli\u00adgious beliefs with\u00adout an accom\u00adpa\u00adny\u00ading sec\u00adu\u00adlar purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although my favourite quote is def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly this baf\u00adfling statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lawyers for the back\u00aders of Propo\u00adsi\u00adtion 8 made the case that lim\u00adit\u00ading mar\u00adriage to oppo\u00adsite-sex cou\u00adples is vital to pub\u00adlic inter\u00adest because it pro\u00admotes pro\u00adcre\u00adation, which is fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal to the sur\u00advival of the human&nbsp;race.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, because I know so many gay men and women who would ignore their sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty in the pur\u00adsuit of get\u00adting mar\u00adried. Oh yeah. What world are you idiots liv\u00ading in? We\u2019re ask\u00ading for equal rights so that we <em>don\u2019t<\/em> have to ignore our sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Adden\u00addum: <a href=\"http:\/\/nowirehangers.tumblr.com\/post\/904495009\/proposition-8-was-premised-on-the-belief-that\">anoth\u00ader excerpt from the Judge Walk\u00ader\u2019s rul\u00ading state\u00adment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From news.com.au\u2019s Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adni\u00ada\u2019s gay mar\u00adriage ban over\u00adturned: Judge Walk\u00ader was with\u00ader\u00ading in his crit\u00adi\u00adcism of Propo\u00adsi\u00adtion&nbsp;8. \u201cPropo\u00adsi\u00adtion 8 fails to advance any ratio\u00adnal basis in sin\u00adgling out gay men and les\u00adbians for denial of a mar\u00adriage license,\u201d he wrote in his judge\u00adment. \u201cThe state does not have an inter\u00adest in enforc\u00ading pri\u00advate moral or religious&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}