{"id":5677,"date":"2011-09-24T12:48:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T12:48:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-24T12:48:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T12:48:43","slug":"florida-republican-supports-respect-for-marriage-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/09\/florida-republican-supports-respect-for-marriage-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Republican supports Respect for Marriage Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the first Republican member of Congress to co-sponsor the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2011\/07\/19\/president-obama-supports-respect-marriage-act\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Respect for Marriage Act<\/strong><\/a>. The legislation, introduced by Senator Dianne Feinstein and Congressman Jerrold Nadler, would pave the way to make gay marriage legal within all 50 states by acknowledging that government should not define a couple by their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>This legislation would uphold the principle that the federal government should not deny gay and lesbian couples the same rights and legal protections as straight couples. The President has long called for a legislative repeal of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2011\/09\/23\/2421851\/experience-as-mom-shapes-ros-lehtinens.html\" target=\"_blank\">MiamiHerald.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=172516468500&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:comments numposts=\"10\" width=\"425\" publish_feed=\"true\"><\/fb:comments><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s Rep. 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The legislation,<\/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":[195,64],"tags":[12661,12452,12061,12662],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Florida Republican supports Respect for Marriage Act - 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\/09\/florida-republican-supports-respect-for-marriage-act\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Florida Republican supports Respect for Marriage Act - Proud Parenting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Florida&#8217;s Rep. 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