{"id":43977,"date":"2010-08-18T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/18\/california-same-sex-weddings-put-on-hold-again\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T12:28:00","slug":"california-same-sex-weddings-put-on-hold-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/18\/california-same-sex-weddings-put-on-hold-again.html","title":{"rendered":"California Same-Sex Weddings Put on Hold… Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

A federal appeals court has put same-sex weddings in California on hold while it considers whether the state’s gay marriage ban is constitutional, reports BBC News.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

A three-judge panel in the US Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a lower court’s ruling that would have allowed gay marriages to begin on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The gay marriage ban, known as Proposition 8, was passed by voters in 2008 and overturned earlier this month.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The three judges gave the two sides in the case several months to file briefs on the ruling made by Judge Vaughn Walker, who overturned the ban on same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The next round of arguments is now set for 6 December, which would probably push a decision on same-sex marriages into next year.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Supporters of Proposition 8 had appealed against Judge Walker’s decision last week to allow gay weddings to begin on\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wednesday. Many observers now believe the case may ultimately land at the feet of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The legal staff of the two same-sex couples who challenged the ban had argued that keeping the measure in place infringed upon the civil rights of gays and lesbians.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A federal appeals court has put same-sex weddings in California on hold while it considers whether the state’s gay marriage…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[14021,10405,14022,14023,14020],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}