{"id":648,"date":"2014-03-04T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T23:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=648"},"modified":"2014-03-12T13:27:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T18:27:36","slug":"glbt-news-roundup-march-4-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/648","title":{"rendered":"GLBT News Roundup: March 4, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, state attorneys general are <\/span>not obligated to defend state laws<\/b><\/a> banning same-sex marriage if their discrimination violates the U.S. Constitution. Thus far, AGs in six states have declined to defend anti-marriage equality laws: Virginia, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, Oregon and Nevada.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Supreme Court of Idaho<\/b> has ruled that married same-sex couples are entitled to adopt children.<\/p>\n

A ruling in Kentucky<\/strong> has put same sex marriages in that state on hold until March 20<\/a> while the state of Kentucky decides whether to appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n

The city of Tempe, Arizona<\/strong> passed a law last week making it illegal for businesses to discriminate<\/a> on the basis of sexual orientation. They join Flagstaff, Phoenix, and Tucson as cities in Arizona with similar prohibitions.<\/p>\n

A new California<\/strong> bill seeks to remove the possibility of “gay panic” defenses<\/a> being used in that state’s criminal cases.<\/p>\n

Scotland<\/b>‘s Parliament voted 105-18 to legalize marriage equality, paving the way for same-sex couples there to begin marrying by the fall. Scotland joins England and Wales in the U.K. with marriage equality.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong\u00a0<\/strong>lawmakers are set to debate a bill<\/a> that would give “non-operative” transgender people equal recognition under that city’s laws.<\/p>\n

Disney<\/strong> has pulled their funding of Boy Scouts of America<\/a> due to that group’s ban on gay scout leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, state attorneys general are not obligated to defend state laws banning same-sex marriage if their discrimination violates the U.S. Constitution. Thus far, AGs in six states have declined to defend anti-marriage equality laws: Virginia, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, Oregon and Nevada. The Supreme Court of Idaho has ruled that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}