{"id":314,"date":"2008-11-25T17:03:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T17:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2008-11-25T17:03:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T17:03:32","slug":"proposition_8_and_the_californ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Proposition 8 And The California Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an article in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122757137423754669.html\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>&nbsp;about what has happened since California voters approved Proposition 8.&nbsp; There have been attacks focused on the Mormon religion and those who practice it&#8211;a Book of Mormoon has been burned, envelopes of white powder have been mailed to Mormon Churches, and Mormon Churches and businesses have been picketed.&nbsp; It needs to be pointed out that in California, gay Americans have marriage in every way but the name&#8211;so it&#8217;s not a matter of civil rights&#8211;it&#8217;s a matter of the name.&nbsp; The California Courts overruled the last vote against gay marriage.&nbsp; Hopefully, they will not overrule this one also.&nbsp; If they do, what is the point of voting?<\/p>\n<p>Just a note&#8211;I live in Massachusetts where judges decided that gay marriage was a good idea.&nbsp; Some of us have been trying to get gay marriage on the ballot for the past four or five years, but the state legislature won&#8217;t even let us vote on it.&nbsp; (Massachusetts is a one-party Democrat state).&nbsp; Somehow, we have lost the ability to make our voices heard on certain issues, and because the Democrat party in Massachusetts controls the government, that is not likely to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an article in today&#8217;s The Wall Street Journal&nbsp;about what has happened since California voters approved Proposition 8.&nbsp; There have been attacks focused on the Mormon religion and those who practice it&#8211;a Book of Mormoon has been burned, envelopes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=314\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}