{"id":1368,"date":"2009-12-02T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/02\/north-country-senators-join-no-coalition-reject-same-sex-marriage\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T10:13:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T14:13:44","slug":"north-country-senators-join-no-coalition-reject-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/02\/north-country-senators-join-no-coalition-reject-same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"North Country Senators join No coalition, reject same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Same-sex marriage failed to pass New York&#8217;s Senate today by a wide margin 38-24. <\/p>\n<p>Both North Country Senators, Darrel Aubertine (Democrat) and Betty Little (Republican) voted No.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fascinating issue here in the North Country, where all four Assembly members (Republican as well as Democratic) support gay marriage and see it as a civil right.<\/p>\n<p>When I spoke to Betty Little yesterday, she called this a &#8220;difficult vote&#8221; and made it clear that her party had freed lawmakers to vote their consciences. <\/p>\n<p>Little acknowledged some civil rights issues for gays and lesbians, but supported civil unions as a better remedy.<\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts?  Comment below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Same-sex marriage failed to pass New York&#8217;s Senate today by a wide margin 38-24. Both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}