{"id":5822,"date":"2004-07-13T21:09:06","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T04:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/07\/13\/down-in-flames.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:22:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:22:27","slug":"down_in_flames-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/13\/down_in_flames-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Down in flames"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sounds like good reasons to me<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage was headed for defeat in the Senate today, doomed by nearly solid Democratic opposition, sharp divisions within Republican ranks and a lack of consensus among voters over how best to deal with the issue.<\/p>\n

Good news indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sounds like good reasons to me: A proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage was headed for defeat in the Senate today, doomed by nearly solid Democratic opposition, sharp divisions…<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[718,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-equality","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7632,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/24\/top_priority.html","url_meta":{"origin":5822,"position":0},"title":"Top priority","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Jan-05 12:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a war in Iraq, a war on terror, a social security crisis (according to the President), a major budget deficit ... 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