{"id":435,"date":"2012-02-26T10:14:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T14:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/?p=435"},"modified":"2012-02-26T10:14:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T14:14:26","slug":"maryland-and-washington-state-pass-same-sex-marriage-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/2012\/02\/26\/maryland-and-washington-state-pass-same-sex-marriage-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland and Washington state pass same-sex marriage bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Christine Gregoire of Washington State signed Senate Bill 6239 on Feb. 13, 2012 authorizing same-sex marriage in the state of Washington.<a href=\"Wash. Sess. Laws 2012 ch. 3\" target=\"_blank\"> Wash. Sess. Laws 2012 ch. 3<\/a>. The bill is effective as of June 7, 2012. Governor Martin O&#8217;Malley will sign a similar bill in Maryland, called the<a href=\"http:\/\/mlis.state.md.us\/2012rs\/billfile\/hb0438.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> Civil Marriage Protection Act, <\/a>House Bill 438, on March 1, 2012. Both laws may be subject to repeal by referendum votes by the citizens of the respective states. New Hampshire&#8217;s legislature is talking about repealing its same-sex marriage legislation but Governor John Lynch has vowed to veto any such bill. <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/lgbt\/2012\/01\/31\/415565\/new-hampshire-governor-pledges-to-veto-repeal-of-same-sex-marriage-in-state-address\/?mobile=nc\" target=\"_blank\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Christine Gregoire of Washington State signed Senate Bill 6239 on Feb. 13, 2012 authorizing same-sex marriage in the state of Washington. Wash. Sess. Laws 2012 ch. 3. The bill is effective as of June 7, 2012. Governor Martin O&#8217;Malley will sign a similar bill in Maryland, called the Civil Marriage Protection Act, House Bill [&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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[13476,13323,13475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antidiscrimination-law","category-marital-property","category-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5SHi7-71","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","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=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}