{"id":2968,"date":"2005-12-01T12:14:53","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T17:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/12\/01\/wow-big-news\/"},"modified":"2005-12-01T12:14:53","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T17:14:53","slug":"wow-big-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/12\/wow-big-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow! BIG news!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/rainbow-flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>South Africa&#8217;s highest court today ruled in favour of same-sex marriages, striking down a law that banned gay unions and ordering parliament to draft new legislation within a year. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The common law definition of marriage is declared to be inconsistent with the constitution and invalid to the extent that it does not permit same-sex couples to enjoy the status and benefits it accords heterosexual couples,&#8221; said Justice Albie Sachs in a ruling delivered by the constitutional court.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/sa-flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>Recognition of same-sex marriages would put South Africa in the same league as the Netherlands and Belgium, which have enacted legislation granting gay and lesbian couples the same rights as heterosexual ones. A number of European countries &#8211; Denmark, France, Iceland, Norway and Sweden &#8211; offer a similar legal status to same-sex marriages as civil unions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-glue.net\" rel=\"external\">Eon<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s highest court today ruled in favour of same-sex marriages, striking down a law that banned gay unions and ordering parliament to draft new legislation within a year. &#8220;The common law definition of marriage is declared to be inconsistent with the constitution and invalid to the extent that it does not permit same-sex couples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}