{"id":12102,"date":"2009-05-12T18:58:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T01:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/05\/12\/12102.html"},"modified":"2009-05-12T18:58:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T01:58:42","slug":"new-york-and-new-hampshire-sta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/05\/12\/new-york-and-new-hampshire-sta\/","title":{"rendered":"New York and New Hampshire status updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As expected, the New York state Assembly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/13\/nyregion\/13marriage.html\">passed the same-sex marriage bill<\/a> today. (<a href=\"http:\/\/assembly.state.ny.us\/leg\/?bn=A07732\">A07732: Relates to individuals ability to marry<\/a>.) I kept checking the news all day today to see whether this had happened. It was widely expected\/assumed that it would pass, but I'm still pleased.<\/p>\n<p>The vote this time was 89 in favor (including five Republicans), 52 opposed (apparently including some Democrats, but I'm not sure about that). <a href=\"http:\/\/prideagenda.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/assembly-passes-marriage-equality-bill.html\">Last time<\/a> they passed such a bill, in 2007, the vote was 85 to 61.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, there are still big obstacles ahead for this one. Last I heard, the state Senate majority leader was still saying that he would not bring it to a vote in the Senate until he was sure he had enough votes to pass it, and he was indicating that they were still somewhere around 6 to 8 votes short of having that majority. The hope is that the Assembly vote, and especially the yes votes from some Republicans, will help convince Senators.<\/p>\n<p>For more info about the situation in New York and its history, see tacithydra's <a href=\"http:\/\/tacithydra.livejournal.com\/78302.html\">excellent writeup<\/a> from a couple weeks ago.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The news from New Hampshire is that there's still no news. The bill there is still slowly wending its way to Gov. Lynch's desk, so the five-day clock still hasn't started; the governor has still not indicated what he's going to do when it reaches him; there still may be time to help convince him by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/05\/07\/12085.html\">contacting him<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, the New York state Assembly passed the same-sex marriage bill today. (A07732: Relates to individuals ability to marry.)&#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-12102","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\/12102","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=12102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}