{"id":35169,"date":"2013-04-23T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=35169"},"modified":"2013-04-23T10:07:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:07:09","slug":"nbc-france-legalizes-gay-marriage-despite-angry-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/04\/23\/nbc-france-legalizes-gay-marriage-despite-angry-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC: France legalizes gay marriage despite angry protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France became the 14th country in the world to allow same-sex couples to wed Tuesday, when its parliament approved a law that has sparked often violent street protests and a rise in homophobic attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers in the lower house National Assembly, where President Francois Hollande\u2019s Socialists have an absolute majority, passed the bill by 331 votes for and 225 against.<\/p>\n<p>The law also allows same-sex couples to adopt children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope people across the country will celebrate this moment,\u201d Martin Gaillard, a 31-year-old advocate of gay marriage, told English-language news site France24.com.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of the law have held increasingly angry protests in recent weeks, including a string of confrontations with police in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>They fought hard to scuttle the parliamentary bill because it also allows the use of surrogate motherhood by gay couples wanting children.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/04\/23\/17879169-france-legalizes-gay-marriage-despite-angry-protests?lite\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France became the 14th country in the world to allow same-sex couples to wed Tuesday, when its parliament approved a law that has sparked often violent street protests and a rise in homophobic attacks. Lawmakers in the lower house National Assembly, where President Francois Hollande\u2019s Socialists have an absolute majority, passed the bill by 331 [&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-35169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35169","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=35169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}