{"id":8247,"date":"2014-03-22T18:20:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T22:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8247"},"modified":"2014-03-22T18:20:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T22:20:25","slug":"equality-marches-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8247","title":{"rendered":"Equality marches on&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just a short one on the cool developments here in Michigan where a federal judge just struck down the discrimination that was enshrined in the constitution when the marriage inequality act was passed in 2004. I really like what the judge did with the supposed &#8220;experts&#8221; that the state of Michigan called in to support continuation of inequality, basically calling them lying hacks who had nothing to add to the case&#8230;.but, the best part is that the judge used the 14th amendment to the constitution and it&#8217;s equal protection clause to say that everyone has to be treated equally&#8230;you don&#8217;t get to discriminate just because you have the votes to do it&#8230;I do feel bad that the appeals court has stepped in an stayed the ruling until next week but it won&#8217;t last forever and everyone in the state will be equal when it happens&#8230;yay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just a short one on the cool developments here in Michigan where a federal judge just struck down the discrimination that was enshrined in the constitution when the marriage inequality act was passed in 2004. I really like what the judge did with the supposed &#8220;experts&#8221; that the state of Michigan called in to support &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Equality marches on&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[691,60],"class_list":["post-8247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-gay-rights","tag-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8248,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions\/8248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}