{"id":33486,"date":"2013-05-01T09:03:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T15:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/congratulations-to-all-the-happy-couples.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T07:24:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:24:30","slug":"congratulations-to-all-the-happy-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/congratulations-to-all-the-happy-couples.html","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to all the happy couples!"},"content":{"rendered":"
May you have long, happy lives with one another, and, in the not-too-distant future, be able to enjoy something other than a "separate but not-really-equal" status as well.<\/div>\n

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First Civil Unions in Colorado set to be granted at midnight<\/a>
\n Scores of gay and lesbian Coloradans are expected to make their commitment to love a matter of public record in the sleepy eyes of the law in the early hours Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n

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May you have long, happy lives with one another, and, in the not-too-distant future, be able to enjoy something other than a "separate but not-really-equal" status as well. First Civil Unions in Colorado set to be granted at midnight Scores of gay and lesbian Coloradans are expected to make their commitment to love a matter … Continue reading “Congratulations to all the happy couples!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,25,14,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-gay-stuff","category-love-and-marriage","category-marriage-equality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51514,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/19\/on-the-choosing-of-appropriate-terms-around-marriage-equality.html","url_meta":{"origin":33486,"position":0},"title":"On the choosing of appropriate terms around "marriage equality"","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-Jun-15 10:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's not just a matter of so-called political correctness, but of conveying, accurately, what one means. 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