{"id":2407,"date":"2013-04-08T08:46:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T12:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2013-04-08T08:46:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T12:46:26","slug":"a-majority-of-the-senate-now-supports-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/08\/a-majority-of-the-senate-now-supports-gay-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"A Majority of the Senate Now Supports Gay Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/04\/05\/5-bill-nelson.o.jpg\/a_190x190.jpg?w=525\"><\/p>\n<p>A Democratic senator declaring his or her support for gay marriage just isn&#8217;t as thrilling as it was a few weeks ago, but Florida senator Bill Nelson&#8217;s switch is still notable as he&#8217;s the 51st senator to endorse same-sex marriage. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If we are endowed by our creator with rights, then why shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t those be attainable by gays and lesbians?&#8221; Nelson said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/courts\/civil\/bill-nelson-changes-position-supports-gay-marriage\/2113230\">statement<\/a> to the Tampa Bay <i>Times<\/i> on Thursday, adding, &#8220;Simply put, if the Lord made homosexuals as well as heterosexuals, why should I discriminate against their civil marriage? I shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, and I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Now there are only <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/lgbt\/2013\/04\/02\/1808171\/petitions-pressure-final-8-democratic-senators-to-support-marriage-equality\/\">six Senate Democrats<\/a> who haven&#8217;t jumped on the marriage equality bandwagon.<\/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\/bill-nelson\" title=\"Read all posts tagged bill nelson\">bill nelson<\/a><br \/>\n            ,<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\/poltics\" title=\"Read all posts tagged poltics\">poltics<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p>via Daily Intelligencer <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/04\/majority-of-the-senate-supports-gay-marriage.html\">http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/04\/majority-of-the-senate-supports-gay-marriage.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Democratic senator declaring his or her support for gay marriage just isn&#8217;t as thrilling as it was a few weeks ago, but Florida senator Bill Nelson&#8217;s switch is still notable as he&#8217;s the 51st senator to endorse same-sex marriage. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If we are endowed by our creator with rights, then why shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t those be attainable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/08\/a-majority-of-the-senate-now-supports-gay-marriage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Majority of the Senate Now Supports Gay Marriage&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[782,6,52],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-daily-intelligencer","tag-ifttt","tag-margaret-hartmann"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-CP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","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=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}