{"id":7671,"date":"2003-09-08T23:33:45","date_gmt":"2003-09-09T04:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/09\/08\/massachusetts-considers-civil-unions-legislation\/"},"modified":"2003-09-08T23:33:45","modified_gmt":"2003-09-09T04:33:45","slug":"massachusetts-considers-civil-unions-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/09\/massachusetts-considers-civil-unions-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts considers civil unions legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Leaders of the Massachusetts state senate are preparing legislation to legalize same-sex civil unions, The Boston Globe reports. The move, by senate president Robert E. Travaglini and his top lieutenants, comes as the state&#8217;s supreme judicial court is set to issue a ruling on whether gay marriage should be legalized. Many experts believe the court will rule in favor of legal recognition of gay relationships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Travaglini told the Globe that he is committed to bringing the civil unions legislation to the floor but that he will wait until after the court issues its ruling. &#8220;Being an advocate of civil rights and an advocate of fairness and having supported domestic partnerships 20 years ago, it&#8217;s just a natural progression for me,&#8221; he said about his support of civil unions. &#8220;I understand the concept of fairness and will be supportive of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Although supportive of civil unions, Travaglini, a Roman Catholic, said he opposes legalizing gay marriage. House speaker Thomas M. Finneran and Gov. Mitt Romney, meanwhile, oppose both civil unions and gay marriage.<br \/> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/new_news.asp?ID=9793&#038;sd=09\/09\/03\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Politicians are annoying but Catholic politicians are really annoying.  First we got the amazing logic of personally opposed to abortion, but not willing to vote against it and now it&#8217;s I am for same sex unions but not for same sex marriage.  These people would give a paradox heartburn.  Hey I also understand the concept of fairness and am supportive of it, now tell me how supporting same sex unions is in union with your Catholic faith?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of the Massachusetts state senate are preparing legislation to legalize same-sex civil unions, The Boston Globe reports. The move, by senate president Robert E. Travaglini and his top lieutenants,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671","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=7671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}