{"id":2987,"date":"2010-01-22T21:37:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T02:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2010-01-22T21:37:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T02:37:37","slug":"repostchildren-take-the-stage-in-same-sex-marriage-push-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/22\/repostchildren-take-the-stage-in-same-sex-marriage-push-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Children Take the Stage in Same-Sex Marriage Push &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>LAST month, advocates and opponents of same-sex marriage packed the New Jersey State House in Trenton, supporters in blue, opponents in red. Near the end of the day, Kasey Nicholson-McFadden took the microphone. <strong>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t bother me to tell kids my parents are gay,\u201d<\/strong> he said in a clear voice. <strong>\u201cIt does bother me to say they aren\u2019t married. It makes me feel that our family is less than their family.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/21\/fashion\/21kids.html?pagewanted=all\">Children Take the Stage in Same-Sex Marriage Push &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a way that is what same-sex marriage is about. Acknowledging that people have the right to choose their partners. That people are equal under the law. Of course this doesn&#8217;t remove the right of any religious organization to expel\/excommunicate them, but what we are talking about is legal, and I believe this prohibition is archaic and should be revised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAST month, advocates and opponents of same-sex marriage packed the New Jersey State House in Trenton, supporters in blue, opponents in red. Near the end of the day, Kasey Nicholson-McFadden took the microphone. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t bother me to tell kids my parents are gay,\u201d he said in a clear voice. \u201cIt does bother me to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/22\/repostchildren-take-the-stage-in-same-sex-marriage-push-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Children Take the Stage in Same-Sex Marriage Push &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":""},"categories":[78,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}