{"id":34845,"date":"2013-04-04T08:45:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=34845"},"modified":"2013-04-04T08:45:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:45:16","slug":"lgbtqnation-uruguay-senate-lawmakers-approve-same-sex-marriage-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/04\/04\/lgbtqnation-uruguay-senate-lawmakers-approve-same-sex-marriage-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQNation: Uruguay Senate lawmakers approve same-sex marriage bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay \u2014 Uruguayan lawmakers have voted in favor of a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate voted 23-8 on Tuesday in favor of the bill, which would make Uruguay the world\u2019s 12th nation \u2014 and the second in Latin America \u2014 to legalize same-sex unions.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was previously approved by the lower house of Congress in December.<\/p>\n<p>The measure also allows couples, gay or straight, to decide whose surname goes first when they name their children, breaking with a tradition that has held for centuries across Latin America, where in nearly every country, laws require people to give their children two last names, and the father\u2019s comes first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2013\/04\/uruguay-senate-lawmakers-approve-same-sex-marriage-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay \u2014 Uruguayan lawmakers have voted in favor of a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage. The Senate voted 23-8 on Tuesday in favor of the bill, which would make Uruguay the world\u2019s 12th nation \u2014 and the second in Latin America \u2014 to legalize same-sex unions. The bill was previously approved by the lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}