{"id":2858,"date":"2009-08-17T12:17:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T16:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2009-08-19T11:00:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:00:39","slug":"white-house-targets-doma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/17\/white-house-targets-doma\/","title":{"rendered":"White House targets DOMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even as government lawyers keep defending the law, the Obama administration today <a title=\"filed court papers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/17\/AR2009081701176.html\" target=\"_blank\">filed court papers<\/a> claiming the federal Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against gays and the law should be repealed.\u00a0 School of Law Professor 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 talk about where this may be headed.<\/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>Even as government lawyers keep defending the law, the Obama administration today filed court papers claiming the federal Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against gays and the law should be repealed.\u00a0 School of Law Professor Linda McClain, an authority on family law and gay rights, can talk about where this may be headed. Contact Linda [&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":[1273,1439,762,714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858"}],"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=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}