{"id":3101,"date":"2005-09-02T11:57:41","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T18:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/09\/02\/3101.html"},"modified":"2005-09-02T11:57:41","modified_gmt":"2005-09-02T18:57:41","slug":"samesex-marriage-in-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/09\/02\/samesex-marriage-in-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Same-sex marriage in CA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I meant to mention: yesterday, the California state Senate voted to legalize same-sex marriage<\/a>. \"It is the first time a state legislative body in the United States has voluntarily voted to approve same-sex marriage,\" says that article. (As opposed to being pushed by the courts.)<\/p>\n

It's unclear how that bill will do in the state Assembly, and I have a feeling that the Governor won't sign it even if it does reach him. So I suspect this is more a symbolic victory than a real one.<\/p>\n

Still, pretty cool.<\/p>\n

I had been wondering why the bill itself<\/a> is full of crossed-out stuff about fish and game. Turns out that they used a practice called gut-and-amend<\/a> to take a fish-and-game bill, remove all the language in it, and replace it with the language of the marriage bill. Wacky.<\/p>\n

Another aspect I'm not entirely thrilled with: the bill is called the \"Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act.\" I mean, yeah, go us for re-appropriating the \"marriage protection\" rhetoric and one-upping it with religious freedom, and now we can be the ones saying \"Wait, you're saying you're opposed to protecting marriage? And you don't like religious freedom?\" But I don't much like that kind of tactic regardless of which side is doing it.<\/p>\n

Speaking of confusing language, while I was looking for some of the above info I happened across an op-ed piece titled \"Native Americans shouldn't be wed to battle against same-sex marriage<\/a>.\" At first I thought the headline was suggesting that Native Americans were marrying each other in an attempt to somehow battle against same-sex marriage, which I found very confusing. But it turns out that \"wed to\" is being used in its metaphorical sense. It's a pun, get it? Anyway, the article has some interesting (but possibly oversimplified) stuff about same-sex relationships in modern Native American contexts.<\/p>\n

One more thing: last week, the California Supreme Court ruled that (to quote an article about it) \"lesbian and gay partners who plan a family and raise a child together should be considered legal parents after a breakup<\/a>.\" Interesting.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I meant to mention: yesterday, the California state Senate voted to legalize same-sex marriage. “It is the first time a…<\/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-3101","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\/3101","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=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}