{"id":6224,"date":"2005-04-15T09:17:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T14:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/04\/15\/marriage-has-been-protected-in-oregon\/"},"modified":"2005-04-15T09:17:11","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T14:17:11","slug":"marriage-has-been-protected-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/04\/marriage-has-been-protected-in-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage has been protected in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">PORTLAND, ORE. &#8211; The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday voided nearly 3,000 marriage licenses issued to gay and lesbian couples last year in Multnomah County, ruling that a single county did not have the authority to act on a statewide issue.<\/p>\n<p>The court, in bolstering its conclusion, noted that Oregonians in November passed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as strictly a heterosexual institution. Oregon was one of 11 states to pass such an amendment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Conservative groups said the court ruling on top of the voter-approved amendment resolves the issue of same-sex marriage in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;It&#8217;s over and done,&quot; said Tim Nashif, director of the Defense of Marriage Coalition. &quot;Marriage has been protected in Oregon.&quot; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/nation\/3135309\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Count me as presently surprised that the Oregon Supreme Court, which has acted as judicial activists in the past, could not find a pretext on which to rule on the validity of the &quot;marriage&quot; licenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, ORE. &#8211; The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday voided nearly 3,000 marriage licenses issued to gay and lesbian couples last year in Multnomah County, ruling that a single county&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}