{"id":641,"date":"2008-11-01T10:05:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T10:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=641"},"modified":"2008-11-01T10:05:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T10:05:59","slug":"obama-opposes-californias-prop-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Obama Opposes California&#8217;s Prop 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-marriage forces in California are sending out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noonprop8.com\/articles\/2008\/10\/31\/no-on-prop-8-campaign-slams-dishonest-mailer-targeting-african-american-voters\/\">deceptive mailers<\/a> which imply that Barack Obama and Joe Biden are in favor of California&#8217;s Proposition 8. This is simply untrue. The Obama campaign has released a statement, which says in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Senators Obama and Biden have made clear their commitment to fighting for equal rights for all Americans whether it&#8217;s by granting LGBT Americans all the civil rights and benefits available to heterosexual couples, or repealing &#8216;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell,&#8221; said a statement issued by campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt. &#8220;Senator Obama has already announced that the Obama-Biden ticket opposes Proposition 8 and similar discriminatory constitutional amendments that could roll back the civil rights he and Senator Biden strongly believe should be afforded to all Americans.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Support marriage for all our citizens. Vote <b>NO<\/b> on Proposition 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-marriage forces in California are sending out deceptive mailers which imply that Barack Obama and Joe Biden are in favor of California&#8217;s Proposition 8. This is simply untrue. The Obama campaign has released a statement, which says in part: &#8220;Senators Obama and Biden have made clear their commitment to fighting for equal rights for all Americans whether it&#8217;s by granting LGBT Americans all the civil rights and benefits available to heterosexual couples, or repealing &#8216;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell,&#8221; said a statement issued by campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt. &#8220;Senator Obama has already announced that the Obama-Biden ticket opposes Proposition 8 and <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=641\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-al","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}