{"id":5382,"date":"2011-05-14T10:38:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T10:38:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-03-21T14:57:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:57:33","slug":"new-yorkers-want-marriage-equality-not-civil-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/05\/new-yorkers-want-marriage-equality-not-civil-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorkers want marriage equality not civil unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gay-rights organizations in New York believe civil unions are legally problematic, create confusion and don&#8217;t carry the same weight or respect as marriage. Gov. Cuomo announced last week that marriage equality is one of his top three legislative priorities in the remaining weeks of the session, which ends June 20, and he began his &#8220;People First&#8221; tour to drum up public support and put pressure on lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/uncategorized\/new-york-faith-leaders-show-support-for-same-sex-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More than 700 clergy and faith leaders from around the state have come out in favor of same-sex marriage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Four of New York&#8217;s neighbors \u2014 Canada, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut support marriage equality.<\/p>\n<p>via Star-Gazette<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=172516468500&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay-rights organizations in New York believe civil unions are legally problematic, create confusion and don&#8217;t carry the same weight or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[395,12237,1144,282],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Yorkers want marriage equality not civil unions - Proud Parenting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/05\/new-yorkers-want-marriage-equality-not-civil-unions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Yorkers want marriage equality not civil unions - Proud Parenting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gay-rights organizations in New York believe civil unions are legally problematic, create confusion and don&#8217;t carry the same weight or\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/05\/new-yorkers-want-marriage-equality-not-civil-unions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Proud Parenting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ProudParenting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-05-14T10:38:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-03-21T14:57:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editorial Staff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editorial Staff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/05\/new-yorkers-want-marriage-equality-not-civil-unions\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/05\/new-yorkers-want-marriage-equality-not-civil-unions\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editorial Staff\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/bd1f88f6dfdb00b831bfdda339ec5cf9\"},\"headline\":\"New Yorkers want marriage equality not civil unions\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-14T10:38:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-03-21T14:57:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/05\/new-yorkers-want-marriage-equality-not-civil-unions\/\"},\"wordCount\":110,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"civil unions\",\"Gov. 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