{"id":276,"date":"2008-08-06T21:45:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T05:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/?p=276"},"modified":"2008-08-06T21:46:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T05:46:48","slug":"define-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Define Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure you are aware that the California Marriage Amendment,<br \/>\nProposition 8,  qualified for the November ballot.  This amendment<br \/>\nwill amend the state constitution to solidly define marriage as being<br \/>\nbetween one man and one woman.<!--more--> Passing this amendment is the only way<br \/>\nfor the people to override the four supreme court judges who want to<br \/>\nre-define marriage for our entire society.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in marriage.  Marriage is ordained of God.  While not all<br \/>\nmarriages are successful, I still believe the best place for children<br \/>\nto be born and raised is within the bonds of marriage between a man<br \/>\nand woman.  Traditional families add to the well being and stability<br \/>\nof our society as a whole.  We should be working to strengthen<br \/>\ntraditional marriages rather than weakening it by disregarding its<br \/>\nintended purpose.  Here are some other reasons that the preservation<br \/>\nof the traditional definition of marriage is important:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.protectmarriage.com\/why.php .<\/p>\n<p>I hope you will vote in November and ensure the stability of our<br \/>\nsociety by voting in favor of the traditional family.  Vote in favor<br \/>\nof marriage being defined as being between one man and one woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure you are aware that the California Marriage Amendment, Proposition 8, qualified for the November ballot. This amendment will amend the state constitution to solidly define marriage as being between one man and one woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}