{"id":765,"date":"2006-02-24T04:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2006-02-24T04:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T04:43:00","slug":"thursday-night-discrimination-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/thursday-night-discrimination-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night discrimination blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because sometimes already-existing laws just aren&#8217;t good enough when it comes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/mca\/local\/article\/0,2845,MCA_25340_4491112,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">keeping The Gays down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NASHVILLE &#8212; A Nashville judge ruled today that the proposal to amend the Tennessee Constitution to ban same-sex marriage can appear on the statewide Nov. 7 ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit last year to block the constitutional referendum on technical grounds: the state legislature did not publish the proposed amendment six months prior to the 2004 legislative election, as the constitutional process requires. Instead, the notice was published 4 1\/2 months before the election.<br \/>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If voters approve the amendment in November, the ban on same-sex marriage that already exists in state law, would be placed in the Tennessee Constitution, which cannot be altered by the legislature alone.<\/p>\n<p>State House Republican Leader Bill Dunn of Knoxville, who proposed the amendment, said he is happy with the ruling &#8220;and I certainly hope the ACLU will not continue to try to thwart the will of the people of Tennessee by preventing them from voting on this measure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because sometimes already-existing laws just aren&#8217;t good enough when it comes to keeping The Gays down. NASHVILLE &#8212; A Nashville judge ruled today that the proposal to amend the Tennessee Constitution to ban same-sex marriage can appear on the statewide Nov. 7 ballot. The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit last year to block the constitutional referendum on technical grounds: the state legislature did not publish the proposed amendment six months prior to the 2004&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-cl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}