{"id":16,"date":"2009-05-06T16:32:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/?p=16"},"modified":"2009-05-06T16:32:27","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:32:27","slug":"the-weather-sucks-but-gay-people-can-get-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/2009\/05\/06\/the-weather-sucks-but-gay-people-can-get-married\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weather Sucks, But Gay People Can Get Married!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Maine&#8217;s governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/05\/06\/maine.same.sex.marriage\/index.html\">signed gay marriage into law<\/a>, which now leaves New Hampshire and Rhode Island as the only two New England states that haven&#8217;t legalized gay marriage.  New Hampshire&#8217;s legislature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/world_us\/20090430_N_H__vote_moves_state_closer_to_gay_marriage.html\">is close<\/a> to passing such a bill, and Rhode Island, while lagging behind, is at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrni.org\/content\/commentary-gay-marriage-legislation-debate\">debating the topic<\/a> in their legislature.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any original commentary to add here.  It is astounding to watch our system work on the side of what&#8217;s right as opposed to on the side of what&#8217;s bigoted&#8211;and you&#8217;ll never be able to convince me that the argument against gay marriage is rooted in anything other than bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been raining for the last couple days here, but the sun came out a couple hours ago and we might salvage a nice spring day yet&#8211;something that, in New England, is harder to come by than a gay married couple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Maine&#8217;s governor signed gay marriage into law, which now leaves New Hampshire and Rhode Island as the only two New England states that haven&#8217;t legalized gay marriage. New Hampshire&#8217;s legislature is close to passing such a bill, and Rhode Island, while lagging behind, is at least debating the topic in their legislature. I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2061,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}