{"id":2091,"date":"2015-08-16T11:08:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T16:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2015-08-16T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T16:08:25","slug":"guam-passes-marriage-equality-and-non-discrimination-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2091","title":{"rendered":"Guam passes marriage equality and non-discrimination bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Guam passed two laws this week that would bring their marriage laws in alignment with judicial rulings and would help protect their LGBT citizens from discrimination. By a 13-2 vote, the legislature of Guam voted to remove all references to gender being a factor in marriage legislation. Guam&#8217;s marriage laws had previously been struck down in June, and the island had been following the new procedures since the?<em>Obergefell?<\/em>decision. Additionally, the legislature unanimously passed an LGBT anti-discrimination bill in regards to employment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metroweekly.com\/2015\/08\/guam-passes-marriage-equality-and-employment-nondiscrimination-acts\/\">Via Metro Weekly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The passage of same-sex marriage comes just a day after lawmakers unanimously approved <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/202.128.4.46\/Bills_Introduced_33rd\/Bill%20No.%20B102-33%20(COR).pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a bill to prohibit LGBT employment nondiscrimination<\/a>. That bill adds sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and military status to a list of protected classes covered by Guam?s nondiscrimination laws. As a result, employers would be prohibited from firing or refusing to hire someone because they belong to one of those protected classes. A few lawmakers raised concerns over the inclusion of gender identity in the bill, and offered an amendment to remove ?gender expression? from the legislation, but that amendment was unsuccessful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Guam passed two laws this week that would bring their marriage laws in alignment with judicial rulings and would help protect their LGBT citizens from discrimination. By a 13-2 vote, the legislature of Guam voted to remove all references to gender being a factor in marriage legislation. Guam&#8217;s marriage laws had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[296,295,96,101],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-employment","tag-guam","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","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=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}