{"id":2188,"date":"2009-07-08T16:37:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T20:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2009-07-08T16:37:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T20:37:12","slug":"mass-challenges-federal-doma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/08\/mass-challenges-federal-doma\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass. challenges federal DOMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a <a title=\"filing in U.S. District Court\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2009\/07\/mass_to_challen\" target=\"_blank\">filing in U.S. District Court <\/a>in Boston, Massachusetts becomes the first state to challenge the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.\u00a0 School of Law Professor <a title=\"Linda McClain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/mcclain_l.html\" target=\"_blank\">Linda McClain<\/a>, an authority on family law and gay rights, can discuss the legal ramifications.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Linda McClain, 617-358-4635, <a href=\"mailto:lmcclain@bu.edu\">lmcclain@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a filing in U.S. District Court in Boston, Massachusetts becomes the first state to challenge the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.\u00a0 School of Law Professor Linda McClain, an authority on family law and gay rights, can discuss the legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1273,1439,714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}