{"id":611,"date":"2012-10-23T22:31:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T22:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adamflanders.com\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2012-10-23T22:32:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T22:32:37","slug":"yes-on-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/yes-on-1\/","title":{"rendered":"YES on 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voting is coming up soon, with only a couple weeks left to make a decision. I already voted by absentee ballot because I&#8217;m currently away on vacation with my family. Before leaving, we reconstructed and repainted our giant marriage equality sign from 2009. Look for it on route 1 in Belfast, near Dairy Queen \/ EBS \/ Circle K \/ Pizza Hut.<\/p>\n<p>The consensus from last night&#8217;s debate seems to be that Obama won, which gives him 2 out of 3. For the first time in history we have a president who is openly in favor of marriage equality. Three other states besides Maine will be voting on this issue in November. Prop 8 and DOMA are both in the high courts and I expect the US Supreme Court will rule on nationwide \/ Federal marriage rights within the next year or two. That will no doubt have a blanket effect akin to <i>Loving v. Virginia<\/i>, but it would still be symbolic if Maine were the first state to legalize same-sex marriage via popular vote.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a Mainer or live in one of other three states that will be voting on this issue next month, I hope you will vote in favor of equality. Marriage equality will not affect anyone except the already existing families that wish to have <i>civil<\/i> recognition under state law. This won&#8217;t have any impact on churches or other individual freedoms &#8211; in fact, the law actually protects religious freedom by specifically stating that no organization, entity, or individual will ever be forced to perform a marriage ceremony if such a ceremony would conflict with their religious beliefs. Please Vote YES on 1.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.adamflanders.com\/images\/2012\/yeson1.jpg\" width=\"450\" title=\"Vote YES on 1\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting is coming up soon, with only a couple weeks left to make a decision. I already voted by absentee ballot because I&#8217;m currently away on vacation with my family. Before leaving, we reconstructed and repainted our giant marriage equality sign from 2009. Look for it on route 1 in Belfast, near Dairy Queen \/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[55,53,18,54,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}