{"id":1946,"date":"2009-06-06T19:50:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T23:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2009-06-06T19:50:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T23:50:15","slug":"cheney-speaks-in-favor-of-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/06\/06\/cheney-speaks-in-favor-of-gay-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney Speaks In Favor of Gay Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post today has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/06\/05\/AR2009060503423.html\">an article<\/a> about Dick Cheney&#8217;s support for gay marriage. The article goes on to say that this &#8220;appears to place him to the left of President Obama,&#8221; who seems to have angered many by stating that he opposes gay marriage but supports civil unions.<\/p>\n<p>The more I hear about gay marriage, the more bothered I become: why would <em>anyone<\/em> oppose it? Yes, some religions consider homosexuality an &#8220;abomination.&#8221; No, the overwhelming majority of Americans don&#8217;t wish to marry someone of the same sex. But, in my mind, none of that amounts to a reason to try to use the law to preclude same-sex marriage.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post today has an article about Dick Cheney&#8217;s support for gay marriage. The article goes on to say that this &#8220;appears to place him to the left of President Obama,&#8221; who seems to have angered many by stating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/06\/06\/cheney-speaks-in-favor-of-gay-marriage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}