{"id":3893,"date":"2012-09-20T13:48:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T20:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/retain-the-meaning-of-marriage\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T20:00:32","slug":"retain-the-meaning-of-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/retain-the-meaning-of-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Retain the meaning of marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>In November we will vote on a foundational issue \u2013 the defining of marriage. Unfortunately the issue has been falsely presented as a &#8220;right&#8221; instead of a definition. It is not anti-gay to continue a definition of marriage that is held in all major religions and cultures; marriage is between one man and one women.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Good people have been sold on this issue as a right and not a foundational value of our American culture. Gay couples already have achieved the basic rights and have not been discriminated against.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Referendum 74 is simply about protecting the foundational definition that has stood the test of time. Thirty-one states have understood this and retained marriage as between one man and one woman.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Washington voters need to reject the false attempt to make it about rights and endorse what marriage is and has always been.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Steve Altick<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November we will vote on a foundational issue \u2013 the defining of marriage. Unfortunately the issue has been falsely presented as a &#8220;right&#8221; instead of a definition. It is not anti-gay to continue a definition of marriage that is held in all major religions and cultures; marriage is between one man and one women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}