{"id":17250,"date":"2012-04-11T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17250"},"modified":"2013-10-30T20:01:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T23:01:05","slug":"homosexual-advocacy-group-defends-bigamy-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/11\/homosexual-advocacy-group-defends-bigamy-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Homosexual Advocacy Group Defends Bigamy Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting twist, the homosexual advocacy group GLAD is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glad.org\/current\/item\/glad-argues-one-spouse-at-a-time-rule-applies-to-civil-unions-as-well-as-ma\/\">defending a Massachusetts law<\/a> that says you can only be married to\u00a0(or in a &#8220;civil union&#8221; with) one person at a time.\u00a0 Their logic is fascinating:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<em><strong>It has always been the law <\/strong><\/em>of the Commonwealth that a person may only have one spouse at a time,\u201d says GLAD <!--more-->Senior Staff Attorney Karen Loewy&#8230;\u201cThis is a straightforward case of <strong><em>applying long-established principles <\/em><\/strong>to the legal relationships of same-sex couples, just as they apply to different-sex couples.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems like most homosexual advocates recently eschewed &#8220;its the law, and its always been the law.&#8221;\u00a0 Think GLAD will defend DOMA, since &#8220;it has always been the law&#8221; in the United States and it is a &#8220;long-established principle&#8221; that a marriage can only consist of two people of opposite gender?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting twist, the homosexual advocacy group GLAD is defending a Massachusetts law that says you can only be married to\u00a0(or in a &#8220;civil union&#8221; with) one person at a time.\u00a0 Their logic is fascinating: \u201cIt has always been the law of the Commonwealth that a person may only have one spouse at a time,\u201d says GLAD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1744,3145,442,3146,3147],"class_list":["post-17250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-doma","tag-glad","tag-homosexual","tag-karen-loewy","tag-massachusetts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}