{"id":49651,"date":"2014-12-09T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49651"},"modified":"2014-12-08T11:03:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:03:15","slug":"equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49651","title":{"rendered":"Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Courts struck down obsolete \u201cone-man-one-woman\u201d marriage laws because gays were treated unfairly.<\/p>\n<p>Incest laws prevent birth defects . . . but gay couples don\u2019t have that problem.  So should gay cousins be allowed to marry?  And what about Muslim cousin arranged marriages \u2013 shouldn\u2019t we respect that culture?<\/p>\n<p>Once you begin pulling out the foundation stones of the social framework . . . .<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What, in all honesty, prevents any group of two or more people with legal standing to sign contracts from getting &#8220;married&#8221;, anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Courts struck down obsolete \u201cone-man-one-woman\u201d marriage laws because gays were treated unfairly. Incest laws prevent birth defects . . . but gay couples don\u2019t have that problem. So should gay cousins be allowed to marry? And what about Muslim cousin arranged marriages \u2013 shouldn\u2019t we respect that culture? Once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-family-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49652,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49651\/revisions\/49652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}