{"id":1091,"date":"2004-09-19T10:39:48","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T18:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/19\/louisiana-anti-ssm-amendment-passed\/"},"modified":"2004-09-19T10:39:48","modified_gmt":"2004-09-19T18:39:48","slug":"louisiana-anti-ssm-amendment-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana anti-SSM amendment passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/archives\/articles\/2004\/9\/19\/112957.shtml\">Newsmax<\/a> reports,  27% of Louisiana&#8217;s registered voters turned out yesterday and overwhelmingly passed an amendment banning same sex marriage in Louisiana.  The amendment will be challenged by opponents on at least two grounds.  One  is failure to deliver ballot boxes to polls in a timely fashion. The other is a constitutional challenge, alleging the amendment has more than one purpose, which violates the Louisiana constitution.  A  previous constitutional challenge had been turned down by the courts, which ruled that challenges can only be lodged after the vote.<\/p>\n<p>For more visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/09\/19\/louisiana.same.sex.marriage.ap\/index.html\">CNN.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsmax reports, 27% of Louisiana&#8217;s registered voters turned out yesterday and overwhelmingly passed an amendment banning same sex marriage in Louisiana. The amendment will be challenged by opponents on at least two grounds. One is failure to deliver ballot boxes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1091\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}