{"id":80,"date":"2004-02-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebgal.com\/wordpress\/?p=80"},"modified":"2004-02-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-18T12:00:00","slug":"fair-treatment-marriage-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Fair Treatment, Marriage, and more &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Again, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/billandkent.com\/\">Bill and Kent&#8217;s Weblog!<\/a> for the alerts!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you are a Virginia Resident, <b>please call your representative and let them know your feelings on these proposed laws<\/b>. If we stand up together, we CAN stop them. If you want Gay Marriage, you need to work for it. You can go to the form here, enter your address and zip and find out who and how to contact them. A phone call works great! (Be polite and professional!)<br \/>\n(Link Expired) <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From Richmond, Virginia:<br \/>\nLegislation has been passed to allow employers to offer group insurance benefits to gay partners who live together.  <a href=\"http:\/\/leg1.state.va.us\/cgi-bin\/legp504.exe?041+sum+HB1016\">HB1016<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThey also rejected a measure that would have made state mortgage loans available only to married heterosexuals or blood relatives. <a href=\"http:\/\/leg1.state.va.us\/cgi-bin\/legp504.exe?041+sum+HB187\">HB187<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFeb 17th the Virginia House passed a bill that reaffirms the state&#8217;s ban on gay marriage.   <a href=\"http:\/\/leg1.state.va.us\/cgi-bin\/legp504.exe?ses=041&#038;typ=bil&#038;val=hb751&#038;Submit=Go\"> HB751 <\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you are a Virginia Resident, <b>please call your representative and let them know your feelings on these proposed laws<\/b>. If we stand up together, we CAN stop them. If you want Gay Marriage, you need to work for it. You can go to the form here, enter your address and zip and find out who and how to contact them. A phone call works great! (Be polite and professional!)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/conview.state.va.us\/whosmy\/constinput.asp\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/conview.state.va.us\/whosmy\/constinput.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again, thanks to Bill and Kent&#8217;s Weblog! for the alerts! If you are a Virginia Resident, please call your representative and let them know your feelings on these proposed laws. If we stand up together, we CAN stop them. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=80\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}