{"id":1427,"date":"2015-03-02T21:14:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T03:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2015-03-02T21:14:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T03:14:49","slug":"judge-strikes-down-nebraskas-same-sex-marriage-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/02\/judge-strikes-down-nebraskas-same-sex-marriage-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge strikes down Nebraska&#8217;s same-sex marriage ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalstar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Journal Star<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A U.S. district judge Monday struck down Nebraska&#8217;s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, setting the stage for county clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses next week.<\/p>\n<p>The state quickly scrambled to request a stay that would delay the March 9 date Judge Joseph Bataillon set for his order to go into effect.<\/p>\n<p>In the order posted early Monday, Bataillon called section 29 of the state Constitution &#8212; Nebraska\u2019s Defense of Marriage act &#8212; an &#8220;unabashedly gender-specific infringement of the equal rights of its citizens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Approved by 70 percent of voters in 2000, the ban defines a valid marriage as one between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p>The state has the right to encourage couples to marry and provide support for one another, the judge wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, those laws must be enforced equally and without respect to gender. It is time to bring this unequal provision to an end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/nebraska\/judge-strikes-down-state-s-ban-on-same-sex-marriage\/article_dc5c8dfd-e8c6-5771-8e35-004708505a7a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Lincoln Journal Star: A U.S. district judge Monday struck down Nebraska&#8217;s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, setting the stage for county clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses next week. The state quickly scrambled to request a stay that would delay the March 9 date Judge Joseph Bataillon set for his order to go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/02\/judge-strikes-down-nebraskas-same-sex-marriage-ban\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judge strikes down Nebraska&#8217;s same-sex marriage ban<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[15,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}