{"id":10457,"date":"2014-01-14T14:49:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T22:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10457"},"modified":"2014-01-14T15:28:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T23:28:39","slug":"breaking-oklahoma-ban-on-marriage-equality-found-unconstitutional-by-federal-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10457","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Oklahoma Ban on Marriage Equality Found Unconstitutional by Federal Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/MaryBishop_SharonBaldwin_MarriageEqualityOklahoma.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Move over, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10431\">Utah<\/a>! True <em>conservative<\/em> Constitutional equality for <i>all<\/i> comes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/courts\/oklahoma-ban-on-gay-marriage-ruled-unconstitutional\/article_85e88366-7d68-11e3-ab41-001a4bcf6878.html\">sweeping down the plains<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">U.S. Senior District Judge Terence Kern ruled Tuesday that Oklahoma&#8217;s ban on marriage equality is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling is stayed pending appeal, meaning marriages will not occur immediately in Oklahoma.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Equality is not just for the coasts anymore, and today&#8217;s news from Oklahoma shows that time has come for fairness and dignity to reach every American in all 50 states,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/courts\/oklahoma-ban-on-gay-marriage-ruled-unconstitutional\/article_85e88366-7d68-11e3-ab41-001a4bcf6878.html\">said Chad Griffin<\/a>, the President of the Human Rights Campaign, in a statement issued this afternoon following the federal judge&#8217;s ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over, Utah! True conservative Constitutional equality for all comes sweeping down the plains&#8230; U.S. Senior District Judge Terence Kern ruled Tuesday that Oklahoma&#8217;s ban on marriage equality is unconstitutional. The ruling is stayed pending appeal, meaning marriages will not occur immediately in Oklahoma. &#8220;Equality is not just for the coasts anymore, and today&#8217;s news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309,572,126,127],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-marriage","category-oklahoma","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-the-constitution"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}