{"id":26,"date":"2008-07-02T17:28:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T22:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtforce\/?p=26"},"modified":"2008-10-20T17:54:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T22:54:22","slug":"california-or-bust-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"California or Bust&#8230; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As long as you haven\u2019t been living under a rock, you know that same-sex couples can now be legally married not only in Massachusetts, but also California. Just how many marriage licenses have been issued since the ruling took effect (June 17)? According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3w9xwg\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>, the two-day total for licenses (17-18 June) almost topped 4,000. That doesn\u2019t include Thursday or Friday of that week. I\u2019d say there\u2019s a rush to the courthouse.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all well and good for the Californians, but what about the rest of the 270 million people in the United States? Granted, not everyone has the conundrum of not being able to marry, but still. If you\u2019re looking for a refresher on the current state of affairs as well as the history of same-sex marriage laws, the Pew Research Center has an incredibly informative article on its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateline.org\/live\/details\/story?contentId=316858\">Stateline.org<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on a state-by-state basis, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/\">Human Rights Campaign<\/a> features tons of information on their website about all legal matters that affect the LGBT community. Just use the <strong>Community<\/strong> section in the center of the home page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as you haven\u2019t been living under a rock, you know that same-sex couples can now be legally married not only in Massachusetts, but also California. Just how many marriage licenses have been issued since the ruling took effect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=26\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,1104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt-issues","category-us-wrap-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}