{"id":213,"date":"2010-06-16T06:45:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T06:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adamflanders.com\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2010-07-09T09:32:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T09:32:39","slug":"final-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/final-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think we&#8217;ve won the first step to nationwide marriage equality! I&#8217;m so happy. Today goes down in history. Opponents of equality couldn&#8217;t produce a single ground to oppose marriage equality, not a single valid witness, and even admittedly by them, absolutely <i>no evidence<\/i>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MR. OLSON: &#8220;The Romeer case that says you<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t take away rights and make them unconstitutional<br \/>\nimpossible to recover except by amending your state<br \/>\nconstitution. And the Lawrence case that says that the<br \/>\nsexual orientation of individuals and their private<br \/>\nconduct is a protected right. You cannot then in the<br \/>\nface of all those decisions by the United States Supreme<br \/>\nCourt say to these individuals we are going to take away<br \/>\nthe constitutional right to liberty privacy association<br \/>\nand sexual intimacy that we tell you that you have and<br \/>\nthen we will now use that as a basis for not allowing<br \/>\nyou the freedom to marry. That is not acceptable. It&#8217;s<br \/>\nnot acceptable under our constitution. And<br \/>\nMr. Blankenhorn is absolutely right the day that we end<br \/>\nthat we will be more American.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we&#8217;ve won the first step to nationwide marriage equality! I&#8217;m so happy. Today goes down in history. Opponents of equality couldn&#8217;t produce a single ground to oppose marriage equality, not a single valid witness, and even admittedly by them, absolutely no evidence. MR. OLSON: &#8220;The Romeer case that says you can&#8217;t take away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}