{"id":718,"date":"2012-06-05T16:10:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T16:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=718"},"modified":"2016-12-12T16:10:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T16:10:49","slug":"statement-by-speaker-christine-c-quinn-re-federal-appeals-court-on-california-marriage-equality-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2012\/06\/05\/718\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement By Speaker Christine C. Quinn Re: Federal Appeals Court on California Marriage Equality Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday&#8217;s decision by the Federal Appeals Court refusing to reconsider a ruling that found California\u2019s ban on same-sex marriages to be unconstitutional is the next important victory in the fight for full equality.<\/p>\n<p>With today\u2019s decision, the courts have affirmed what we have always known- that denying anyone of their civil rights is wrong. Should the Supreme Court decide to hear this case, I\u2019m confident that our nation\u2019s highest court will rule on the side of justice. Until marriage equality is extended to all people, we will not stop fighting for our rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday&#8217;s decision by the Federal Appeals Court refusing to reconsider a ruling that found California\u2019s ban on same-sex marriages to be unconstitutional is the next important victory in the fight for full equality.<\/p>\n<p>With today\u2019s decision, the courts have affirmed what we have always known- that denying anyone of their civil rights is wrong. Should the Supreme Court decide to hear this case, I\u2019m confident that our nation\u2019s highest court will rule on the side of justice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2012\/06\/05\/718\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}