{"id":6318,"date":"2012-12-18T12:30:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T12:30:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-12-18T12:30:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T12:30:46","slug":"vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote on marriage equality expected in Rhode Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Openly gay House Speaker Gordon Fox (pic) said he intends to call an early vote on marriage legislation and passing it is one of his top priorities. Fox says gains in the state&#8217;s General Assembly and marriage equality victories around the U.S. are evidence that the public supports allowing same-sex couples to wed.<\/p>\n<p>The RI House did not vote last year because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teresapaivaweed.com\/index.php?option=com_contact&#038;view=contact&#038;id=1&#038;Itemid=13\" target=\"_blank\">of strong <strong>opposition<\/strong> from <strong>Paiva Weed<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpri.com\/dpp\/news\/local_news\/providence\/providence-ri-gay-marriage-vote-expected-in-2013\" target=\"_blank\">WPRI.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/node\/17205\" data-num-posts=\"2\" data-width=\"470\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Openly gay House Speaker Gordon Fox (pic) said he intends to call an early vote on marriage legislation and passing<\/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":[1144,11902],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vote on marriage equality expected in Rhode Island - 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\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vote on marriage equality expected in Rhode Island - Proud Parenting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Openly gay House Speaker Gordon Fox (pic) said he intends to call an early vote on marriage legislation and passing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/\" \/>\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=\"2012-12-18T12:30:46+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<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editorial Staff\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/bd1f88f6dfdb00b831bfdda339ec5cf9\"},\"headline\":\"Vote on marriage equality expected in Rhode Island\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-12-18T12:30:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-12-18T12:30:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/\"},\"wordCount\":81,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"marriage equality\",\"Rhode Island\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Editor's Pick\",\"News & Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/\",\"name\":\"Vote on marriage equality expected in Rhode Island - Proud Parenting\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-12-18T12:30:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-12-18T12:30:46+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Vote on marriage equality expected in Rhode Island\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/\",\"name\":\"Proud Parenting\",\"description\":\"LGBTQ Families\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Proud Parenting\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/cropped-cropped-2017proudparentinglogotransrainbow150x91-2.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/cropped-cropped-2017proudparentinglogotransrainbow150x91-2.png\",\"width\":150,\"height\":91,\"caption\":\"Proud Parenting\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ProudParenting\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/bd1f88f6dfdb00b831bfdda339ec5cf9\",\"name\":\"Editorial Staff\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/de4ae8ca2808017833bbf654b62b9986?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/de4ae8ca2808017833bbf654b62b9986?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Editorial Staff\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/author\/jeff\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Vote on marriage equality expected in Rhode Island - Proud Parenting","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Vote on marriage equality expected in Rhode Island - Proud Parenting","og_description":"Openly gay House Speaker Gordon Fox (pic) said he intends to call an early vote on marriage legislation and passing","og_url":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/","og_site_name":"Proud Parenting","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ProudParenting","article_published_time":"2012-12-18T12:30:46+00:00","author":"Editorial Staff","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Editorial Staff"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/"},"author":{"name":"Editorial Staff","@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/bd1f88f6dfdb00b831bfdda339ec5cf9"},"headline":"Vote on marriage equality expected in Rhode Island","datePublished":"2012-12-18T12:30:46+00:00","dateModified":"2012-12-18T12:30:46+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/"},"wordCount":81,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#organization"},"keywords":["marriage equality","Rhode Island"],"articleSection":["Editor's Pick","News & Politics"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/","url":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/","name":"Vote on marriage equality expected in Rhode Island - Proud Parenting","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-12-18T12:30:46+00:00","dateModified":"2012-12-18T12:30:46+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/12\/vote-on-marriage-equality-expected-in-rhode-island\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Vote on marriage equality expected in Rhode Island"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/","name":"Proud Parenting","description":"LGBTQ Families","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#organization","name":"Proud Parenting","url":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/cropped-cropped-2017proudparentinglogotransrainbow150x91-2.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/cropped-cropped-2017proudparentinglogotransrainbow150x91-2.png","width":150,"height":91,"caption":"Proud Parenting"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ProudParenting"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/bd1f88f6dfdb00b831bfdda339ec5cf9","name":"Editorial Staff","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/de4ae8ca2808017833bbf654b62b9986?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/de4ae8ca2808017833bbf654b62b9986?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Editorial Staff"},"url":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/author\/jeff\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}