{"id":946,"date":"2012-10-21T17:48:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T23:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtforce\/?p=946"},"modified":"2012-10-21T17:48:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T23:48:30","slug":"federal-court-rules-doma-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court Rules DOMA Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court in New York became the nation&#8217;s second to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA], finding that the Clinton-era law&#8217;s denial of federal benefits to married same-sex couples is unconstitutional&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/10\/18\/justice\/new-york-appeals-court-doma\/index.html\">Continue reading the full article on CNN.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the second ruling of its kind in less than six months, as in May, a federal court in Boston <a href=\"http:\/\/news.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/05\/31\/boston-court-defense-of-marriage-act-unconstitutional\/\">found DOMA to be discriminatory against same-sex couples<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to keep up with the fight for marriage equality? CNN also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/10\/18\/timeline-same-sex-marriage\/\">nifty timeline starting with the passage of DOMA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Cindy for the link!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court in New York became the nation&#8217;s second to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA], finding that the Clinton-era law&#8217;s denial of federal benefits to married same-sex couples is unconstitutional&#8230; Continue reading the full article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=946\">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-946","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\/946","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=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}