{"id":1638,"date":"2012-11-09T08:53:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2012-11-09T08:53:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:53:49","slug":"gay-marriage-passes-in-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/11\/09\/gay-marriage-passes-in-washington-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Marriage Passes in Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/intel\/2012\/11\/09\/7-rainbowflag.o.jpg\/a_146x97.jpg?w=525\"><\/p>\n<p>When we last <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/11\/gay-marriage-pro-pot-initiatives-clean-up.html\">checked in<\/a> on the referendum that would ratify a marriage equality law passed in Washington&#8217;s legislature earlier this year, the vote was close with only half of the ballots counted. On Thursday opponents of the referendum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gz4jwkDWl52VwwqkMZQzsSXV9HUg?docId=6ba190ff7f2b42a6b8ba942e837427d6\">conceded<\/a>, allowing same-sex couples in Washington to start getting hitched in December. The vote makes the 2012 election a full sweep for marriage equality. In Maryland and Maine voters approved gay marriage, and in Minnesota voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have banned same-sex marriage. Gay marriage is now legal in nine states, plus the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Read more posts by <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/author\/margaret%20hartmann\">Margaret Hartmann<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filed Under:<br \/>\n          <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/equal-rites\" title=\"Read all posts tagged equal rites\">equal rites<\/a><br \/>\n            <\/strong>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/gay-marriage\" title=\"Read all posts tagged gay marriage\">gay marriage<\/a><br \/>\n            ,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/washington\" title=\"Read all posts tagged washington\">washington<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p>via Daily Intel <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/11\/gay-marriage-passes-in-washington-state.html\">http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/11\/gay-marriage-passes-in-washington-state.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we last checked in on the referendum that would ratify a marriage equality law passed in Washington&#8217;s legislature earlier this year, the vote was close with only half of the ballots counted. On Thursday opponents of the referendum conceded, allowing same-sex couples in Washington to start getting hitched in December. The vote makes the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/11\/09\/gay-marriage-passes-in-washington-state\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gay Marriage Passes in Washington State&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[53,6,52],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-daily-intel","tag-ifttt","tag-margaret-hartmann"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-qq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}