{"id":1793,"date":"2015-04-05T13:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2015-04-05T10:01:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T15:01:58","slug":"ireland-legislature-approves-same-sex-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1793","title":{"rendered":"Ireland legislature approves same-sex adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Seanad Eireann (Ireland&#8217;s upper legislative body) approved the Children and Family Relationship Bill this week by a margin of 20-2. The bill had been the subject of day&#8217;s of discussion and over 120 amendments. This bill allows for adoption of children by same-sex couples. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/04\/02\/irish-senators-approve-same-sex-adoption-bill\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bill ? which passed the lower house?earlier last month ? follows up on a promise to extend adoption rights to same-sex partners and co-habiting couples, ahead of the country?s referendum on same-sex marriage on May 22.<\/p>\n<p>It now awaits the signature of Irish President Michael D Higgins, who will sign the bill into law as Head of State.<\/p>\n<p>The bill received a standing ovation when it passed ? and?given the controversy surrounding the country?s same-sex marriage referendum, cleared the Seanad?remarkably without incident.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The Seanad Eireann (Ireland&#8217;s upper legislative body) approved the Children and Family Relationship Bill this week by a margin of 20-2. The bill had been the subject of day&#8217;s of discussion and over 120 amendments. This bill allows for adoption of children by same-sex couples. Via PinkNews: The bill ? which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","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\/1793","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=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}