{"id":4404,"date":"2011-06-25T13:19:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T17:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2011-08-09T15:12:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T19:12:53","slug":"sayward-praises-same-sex-marriage-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/25\/sayward-praises-same-sex-marriage-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Sayward praises same-sex marriage vote; Little says vote was appropriate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: monospace;\"> Here&#8217;s the statement from Assemblywoman Teresa Sayward (R-Willsboro)<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: monospace;\">&#8220;Today the New York State legislature became the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage.\u00a0 I am proud to have been a part of the movement to bring equality to all loving couples in New York State.\u00a0 I understand first hand the struggles gays, lesbians and their families have faced over the years.\u00a0 History will record June 24 as the day New York State voted to end discrimination by granting same-sex couples the right to marry.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: monospace;\">State Sen. Betty Little, meanwhile, issued the following statment:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"> &#8220;I voted against the measure, but  agreed with my conference that a vote needed to be taken. \u00a0We live in a  representative democracy. \u00a0The citizens have a right to know where their  representatives stand on this and any other issue.&#8221; <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the statement from Assemblywoman Teresa Sayward (R-Willsboro) &#8220;Today the New York State legislature became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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\/4404"}],"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=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4405,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions\/4405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}