{"id":734,"date":"2012-05-09T16:19:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=734"},"modified":"2016-12-12T16:19:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T16:19:24","slug":"statement-by-speaker-christine-c-quinn-re-north-carolina-vote-to-ban-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2012\/05\/09\/734\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Christine C. Quinn Re: North Carolina Vote to Ban Same-Sex Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYesterday\u2019s vote to ban same-sex marriage in North Carolina is a stark reminder of how far we still have to go in the fight for marriage equality. North Carolina\u2019s refusal to recognize the civil rights of all people is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>To the legislators in North Carolina who orchestrated this ban on our freedoms: we will overturn your decision. And to LGBT youth and families whose disappointment is my own: do not lose hope. Until marriage equality is passed across the country, we will not stop fighting for our justice, our civil liberties and our rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>     ##<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYesterday\u2019s vote to ban same-sex marriage in North Carolina is a stark reminder of how far we still have to go in the fight for marriage equality. North Carolina\u2019s refusal to recognize the civil rights of all people is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>To the legislators in North Carolina who orchestrated this ban on our freedoms: we will overturn your decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2012\/05\/09\/734\/\">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-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}