{"id":793,"date":"2008-06-16T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/16\/2008-6-16-happy-gay-marriage-day-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:32","slug":"2008-6-16-happy-gay-marriage-day-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/2008-6-16-happy-gay-marriage-day-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Gay Marriage Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Dearly Beloved,<\/p>\n<p>Today is the day that same-sex couples can start legally marrying here in the great state of California. Of course, this is controversial and many religious groups are opposed. So opposed that they&#8217;ve collected signatures to put an initiative on the November ballot to quash gay marriage once and for all. They are missing the point.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly adding a brand new pool of married people will be a tremendous economic boon to the state. Sure the wedding industry will prosper, but think how the market for divorce attorneys, custody mediators, and others in the Break-Up Industrial Complex will explode! Now that commitments between life partners are legally binding, separations become that much more complicated and harrowing.<\/p>\n<p>Note to religious fraidy-cats: You&#8217;ve got nothing to worry about here. The GLBT (and other letters of the alphabet, I&#8217;m sure) folks just want a piece of the cake. They&#8217;ll find out soon enough that the grass isn&#8217;t all that green on your side of the fence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearly Beloved, Today is the day that same-sex couples can start legally marrying here in the great state of California. Of course, this is controversial and many religious groups are opposed. So opposed that they&#8217;ve collected signatures to put an initiative on the November ballot to quash gay marriage once and for all. They are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/2008-6-16-happy-gay-marriage-day-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Gay Marriage Day!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-punditry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}