{"id":232,"date":"2010-07-26T15:49:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T19:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/?p=232"},"modified":"2010-07-26T15:50:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T19:50:25","slug":"argentina-iceland-approve-same-sex-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/2010\/07\/26\/argentina-iceland-approve-same-sex-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina &amp; Iceland approve same-sex marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 15, 2010, the Argentine Senate voted to approve same-sex marriages, adding its voice to a similar bill approved in May by the lower house. Because President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner supports the bill, it will become the law. The Parliament in Iceland unanimously approved a similar bill (by a vote of 49-0) on June 12. Argentina and Iceland join the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, and Portugal in providing full marriage rights for same sex-couples in addition to the states of Massachusetts, Iowa, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and the District of Columbia, although these state-law based marriages are not recognized by the federal government in the United States because of federal Defense of Marriage Act.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyls.edu\/user_files\/1\/3\/4\/30\/59\/65\/66\/ln1007.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 15, 2010, the Argentine Senate voted to approve same-sex marriages, adding its voice to a similar bill approved in May by the lower house. Because President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner supports the bill, it will become the law. The Parliament in Iceland unanimously approved a similar bill (by a vote of 49-0) on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13323,13475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marital-property","category-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5SHi7-3K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}