{"id":2117,"date":"2006-02-10T05:54:50","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T12:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/10\/maryland-legislature-votes-against-same-sex-marraige-ban\/"},"modified":"2006-02-10T05:54:50","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T12:54:50","slug":"maryland-legislature-votes-against-same-sex-marraige-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2117","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Legislature Votes Against Same-Sex Marraige Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may recall, last month a lower court in Maryland ruled that Maryland’s ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional. (That ruling is on hold pending appeal.)<\/p>\n

At the time<\/a>, I was glad about the ruling but fretted that it might set off an amendment to the Maryland Constitution banning same-sex marriage. Happily, the legislature in Maryland recently voted against amending their Constitution to ban SSM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The final decision on SSM in Maryland will eventually be made by the Maryland Supreme Court, and that’s no sure thing, alas; but in the meanwhile this is good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you may recall, last month a lower court in Maryland ruled that Maryland’s ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional. (That ruling is on hold pending appeal.) At the time, I was glad about the ruling but fretted that it … Continue reading →<\/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":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2117","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\/2117","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=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}