{"id":8387,"date":"2009-03-26T18:20:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:20:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-03-26T18:20:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:20:55","slug":"nh-house-passes-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/26\/nh-house-passes-gay-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"NH House Passes Gay Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Union Leader gay marriage just passed the NH house with a narrow margin. <a href=\"http:\/\/unionleader.com\/article.aspx?headline=NH+House+endorses+gay+marriage&#038;articleId=d2564bb9-7761-401a-9366-f3dccde337a5\">http:\/\/unionleader.com\/article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The final vote on HB 556 was 186-179, and came after nearly three hours of debate.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now moves to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Those who pushed for passage of the bill said it was a matter of equal rights and that it will bring an end to discrimination against homosexuals. They said the state&#8217;s civil unions law, passed in 2007, is not the equivalent of marriage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>HB 436 now moves on to the State Senate where democrats enjoy a 14-9 (one vacancy) majority. My guess is this bill is headed to the Governor&#8217;s desk. Democratic Governor John Lynch has come out in the past against gay marriage, so he probably won&#8217;t sign the bill. But he could allow the bill to become law without his signature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Union Leader gay marriage just passed the NH house with a narrow margin. <a href=\"http:\/\/unionleader.com\/article.aspx?headline=NH+House+endorses+gay+marriage&#038;articleId=d2564bb9-7761-401a-9366-f3dccde337a5\">http:\/\/unionleader.com\/article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The final vote on HB 556 was 186-179, and came after nearly three hours of debate.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now moves to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Those who pushed for passage of the bill said it was a matter of equal rights and that it will bring an end to discrimination against homosexuals. They said the state&#8217;s civil unions law, passed in 2007, is not the equivalent of marriage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>HB 436 now moves on to the State Senate where democrats enjoy a 14-9 (one vacancy) majority. My guess is this bill is headed to the Governor&#8217;s desk. Democratic Governor John Lynch has come out in the past against gay marriage, so he probably won&#8217;t sign the bill. But he could allow the bill to become law without his signature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2bh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}