{"id":17134,"date":"2013-04-17T07:58:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17134"},"modified":"2013-04-17T07:58:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T14:58:05","slug":"new-zealand-house-of-representatives-passes-marriage-equality-and-sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17134","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand House of Representatives Passes Marriage Equality And Sings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/DW4DXOAXF8U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re singing a Maori love song called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pokarekare_Ana\">Pokarekare ana<\/a>,&#8221; which, Wikipedia tells me, is sometimes called New Zealand&#8217;s unofficial national anthem.\ufeff <\/p>\n<p>During the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gayexpress.co.nz\/2013\/03\/marriage-amendment-bill-committee-stage-debate\/\">debate<\/a>, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ebenezerjonessdiary.tumblr.com\/post\/48191101118\/marriage-equality-bill-has-just-passed-in-nz-imhttp:\/\/\">Te Ururoa Flavell gave<\/a> a wonderful speech with a Maori perspective, detailing the pre-colonial Maori history of same-sex relationships and how this supports marriage equality. A great counter argument to those who say &#8216;traditional marriage.&#8217; Whose tradition?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The legislator in the gorgeous rainbow coat is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisa_Wall\">Louisa Wall<\/a>, the sponsor of the legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re singing a Maori love song called &#8220;Pokarekare ana,&#8221; which, Wikipedia tells me, is sometimes called New Zealand&#8217;s unofficial national anthem.\ufeff During the debate, &#8220;Te Ururoa Flavell gave a wonderful speech with a Maori perspective, detailing the pre-colonial Maori history &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17134\">Continue reading <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":[39,40,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-international-issues","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17135,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134\/revisions\/17135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}