{"id":1116,"date":"2014-07-31T09:26:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T14:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2014-07-31T09:26:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T14:26:52","slug":"this-week-in-marriage-equality-florida-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1116","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Marriage Equality: Florida, North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By John Mack Freeman<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Florida<\/strong>: In just eight days, two Florida counties had judges strike down that state&#8217;s same sex marriage bans. The first was in the Keys<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilerico.com\/2014\/07\/breaking_florida_marriage_ban_struck_down_again.php\"> followed by Miami-Dade County<\/a>. Judge Zabel ruled in favor of the plaintiffs Equality Florida and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, stating in one part of the ruling &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The answer to the question of whether it is constitutionally permissible to deprive same-sex couples of the right to marry has become increasingly obvious: Of course it is not.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>North Carolina<\/strong>: The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that North Carolina&#8217;s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. In light of this decision, the state attorney general Roy Cooper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/marriage-equality\/2014\/07\/28\/north-carolina-ag-will-stop-defending-marriage-ban-court\">has elected to stop\u00a0defending the ban.<\/a> Although it was approved in 2012 with 61 percent of the vote, Cooper said that it was time to stop spending time on\u00a0&#8220;making arguments we will lose.&#8221; Other states in the same circuit (notably South Carolina) have said that they will not stop defending their own bans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Florida: In just eight days, two Florida counties had judges strike down that state&#8217;s same sex marriage bans. The first was in the Keys followed by Miami-Dade County. Judge Zabel ruled in favor of the plaintiffs Equality Florida and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, stating in one part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}