{"id":11245,"date":"2008-06-17T17:58:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T00:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/06\/17\/11245.html"},"modified":"2008-06-17T17:58:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T00:58:44","slug":"samesex-marriage-roundup-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/06\/17\/samesex-marriage-roundup-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Same-sex marriage roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lots of heartwarming news and photos from around the state today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/06\/17\/MNK811AIQE.DTL&tsp=1\">reports from Bay Area counties<\/a> from this morning.<\/li>\n<li><cite>New York Times<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/18\/us\/17cnd-marriage.html\">article<\/a> with a couple of good photos.<\/li>\n<li>Brief <cite>LA Times<\/cite> blog entry about one of the weddings: \"<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2008\/06\/lax-courthous-3.html\">Would you prefer spouse, partner or husband?<\/a>\"<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/news\/pictures\/articleslideshow?articleId=USN1736038220080617&channelName=domesticNews\">Reuters slideshow<\/a>, which includes several pix of protesters, but many more of happy couples.<\/li>\n<li><cite>LA Times<\/cite> photos (I don't know anything about the couples here except Tyler and Olson):\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-0617marriage-pg,0,4516241.photogallery?index=4\">Robin Tyler and Diane Olson<\/a>, one of the couples who participated in the lawsuit.<\/li>\n<li>Several great photos of Tori and Kate Kuykendall, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-gayweddings-pg,0,5597152.photogallery\">with baby daughter Zadie<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-gayweddings-pg,0,5597152.photogallery?index=8\">carrying through a flower-bedecked arch<\/a>. They also appeared at the top of the <cite>NY Times<\/cite> article I linked to up above.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-gayweddings-pg,0,5597152.photogallery?index=7\">Amber Weiss and Sharon Papo<\/a> in San Francisco.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-gayweddings-pg,0,5597152.photogallery?index=14\">Jeff Van Hooser and Greg McCollum<\/a>, plus their kids.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-gayweddings-pg,0,5597152.photogallery?index=15\">Jaime Munoz and William Lundquist, kissing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>State legislators can perform weddings too: \"<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2008\/06\/sacramento-didn.html\">Didn't your mother tell you to marry a doctor?<\/a>\"<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-marriagesmap,0,6124834.htmlstory\">County-by-county map<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Something a little different: an article on teen attitudes. \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/asection\/la-me-banks17-2008jun17,0,5343078.column\">Teenagers have mixed views on gays -- and they're OK with that<\/a>.\"<\/li>\n<li>Brief CNN snippet about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/SHOWBIZ\/06\/17\/takai.marriage.ap\/index.html\">George Takei getting married<\/a>--only they weirdly spelled his name \"Takai\" throughout the article, including the URL. I dropped them a note pointing out the typo, but they haven't fixed it yet. Aside re a pet peeve of mine: I see more and more evidence lately that news organizations aren't using proofreaders for content to be posted online.<\/li>\n<li>A month ago, Gov. Schwarzenegger <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.ca.gov\/speech\/9681\">commented on the ruling<\/a> (see answer to last question, down at end of page). Among other things, he said: \"I'm wishing everyone good luck with their marriages, and I hope that California's economy is booming because everyone is going to come here and get married. [...] I think all of this is great.\"<\/li>\n<li>Scalzi provides <a href=\"http:\/\/scalzi.com\/whatever\/?p=890\">wedding advice<\/a> (for people of any orientation or gender).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of heartwarming news and photos from around the state today: Brief reports from Bay Area counties from this morning&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-samesex-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}