{"id":6605,"date":"2010-08-16T11:52:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T16:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6605"},"modified":"2011-01-19T12:20:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:20:24","slug":"calif-gay-marriage-ruling-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/08\/16\/calif-gay-marriage-ruling-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Calif. gay-marriage ruling challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6606\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/gay-marriage-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"gay marriage\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>A federal appeals court this week <a title=\"considers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/16\/us\/politics\/16prop.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">considers<\/a> a request to ban the resumption of same-sex marriages in Californina that would be based on a federal judge&#8217;s ruling which said the state had no constitutional right to block such marriages &#8212; which happened when voters approved Proposition 8 last year.\u00a0 Gay-marriage opponents want\u00a0them to be put on hold until the case can be appealed to the U.S. Supreme court.\u00a0 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, says California already is living with thousands of such marriages performed between the time the state Supreme Court said they were legal and when voters overruled the court with Proposition 8.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo there is a precedent for having a period in which marriages are allowed, even if subsequent marriages are banned.\u00a0 And Californians are living with these marriages without evident harm to the institution of marriage.&#8221;<\/em><\/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>A federal appeals court this week considers a request to ban the resumption of same-sex marriages in Californina that would be based on a federal judge&#8217;s ruling which said the state had no constitutional right to block such marriages &#8212; which happened when voters approved Proposition 8 last year.\u00a0 Gay-marriage opponents want\u00a0them to be put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3483,762,3484,2418,713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605"}],"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=6605"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7618,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions\/7618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}