{"id":9512,"date":"2011-12-01T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T03:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=9512"},"modified":"2011-12-01T13:16:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T02:16:03","slug":"civil-unions-why-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/12\/01\/civil-unions-why-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Unions &#8211; Why Marriage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I support civil unions which have been legalised in Queensland, as they currently are in Tasmania.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bill, introduced by deputy premier Andrew Fraser, allows same-sex or heterosexual couples to register their union with the Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Queensland&#8217;s parliament has voted to lift the shackles of discrimination,&#8221; Mr Fraser said. (read the rest of\u00a0The Age&#8217;s article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/queensland\/queensland-civil-unions-bill-passes-20111201-1o7ma.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this is success for civil rights in that it removes &#8220;the shackles of discrimination&#8221; why do we need to redefine marriage?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I support civil unions which have been legalised in Queensland, as they currently are in Tasmania. The bill, introduced by deputy premier Andrew Fraser, allows same-sex or heterosexual couples to register their union with the Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/12\/01\/civil-unions-why-marriage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9512"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9527,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions\/9527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}