{"id":127,"date":"2013-03-25T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2014-04-24T13:56:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T20:56:34","slug":"prop-8-doma-and-scotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/prop-8-doma-and-scotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Prop 8, DOMA and SCOTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jillbertini\/3035751717\/\" title=\"my 43 year marriage is not threatened by equality by jillbertini, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3219\/3035751717_24dc6b0ecd.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"my 43 year marriage is not threatened by equality\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you are all probably aware, the <b>Supreme Court <\/b>is going to hear oral arguments for <b>Prop 8 <\/b>(Hollingsworth v. Perry) on Tuesday and <b>DOMA<\/b> (United States v. Windsor) on Wednesday, Apparently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dcist.com\/2013\/03\/marriage_equality_supporters_endure.php\" target=\"_blank\">people are already lining up for tickets.<\/a> The NY Times made a super <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2013\/03\/24\/us\/how-the-court-could-rule-on-same-sex-marriage.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;_r=2&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">helpful infographic<\/a> to understand the possible decisions. And Scott Fujita, another NFL player for marriage equality, wrote a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/24\/sports\/football\/scott-fujita-acceptance-by-example-in-locker-room-and-at-home.html?smid=pl-share\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed on acceptance<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/category\/special-features\/same-sex-marriage\/\">SCOTUS Blog<\/a> has tons of entries to help you understand these two cases. They are going to release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/03\/19\/us-usa-court-audio-idUSBRE92I15Z20130319?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=domesticNews\">same-day audio <\/a>of the oral arguments, since there is so much interest in these two cases. There is going to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/484987091543617\/\">noon rally in front of the Federal Courthouse<\/a> on Wednesday, to show support and solidarity for marriage equality.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/button100x23.png\" style=\"border:0px; width:100; height: 23; \" alt=\"Share Button\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Reddit\",\"Print\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Prop%208%2C%20DOMA%20and%20SCOTUS\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you are all probably aware, the Supreme Court is going to hear oral arguments for Prop 8 (Hollingsworth v. Perry) on Tuesday and DOMA (United States v. Windsor) on Wednesday, Apparently\u00a0people are already lining up for tickets. The NY Times made a super helpful infographic to understand the possible decisions. And Scott Fujita, another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/button100x23.png\" style=\"border:0px; width:100; height: 23; \" alt=\"Share Button\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Reddit\",\"Print\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Prop%208%2C%20DOMA%20and%20SCOTUS\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10,9,26],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt","tag-lgbt-2","tag-marriage","tag-marriage-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}