{"id":4403,"date":"2011-06-24T18:56:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T22:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2011-08-09T15:12:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T19:12:53","slug":"same-sex-marriage-is-finally-going-to-the-senate-floor-for-a-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/24\/same-sex-marriage-is-finally-going-to-the-senate-floor-for-a-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Same-sex marriage is finally going to the Senate floor for a vote!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little while after close of business today, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has finally announced Senate republicans are sending the same-sex marriage to the Senate floor for a vote.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the text of his statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After many hours of deliberation and discussion over the past several weeks among the members, it has been decided that same sex\u00a0 marriage legislation will be brought to the full Senate for an up or down vote.<\/p>\n<p>The entire Senate Republican Conference was insistent that amendments be made to the Governor\u2019s original bill in order to\u00a0 protect the rights of religious institutions and not-for-profits with religious affiliations.\u00a0 I appreciate the Governor\u2019s cooperation in working with us to address these important issues and concerns.<\/p>\n<p>As I have said many times, this is a very difficult issue and it will be a vote of conscience for every member of the Senate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill could come up for a vote tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little while after close of business today, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6123,4861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403"}],"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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}