{"id":16110,"date":"2013-04-05T11:38:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=16110"},"modified":"2013-04-05T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T16:38:12","slug":"sens-heitkamp-donnelly-support-gay-marriage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=16110","title":{"rendered":"Sens. Heitkamp, Donnelly Support Gay Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16103\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DonnellyJoe1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16103\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16103\" title=\"DonnellyJoe\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DonnellyJoe1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DonnellyJoe1.jpg 220w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DonnellyJoe1-140x175.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Joe Donnelly (D) Indiana<\/p><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Two freshman Democratic senators, Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, have joined the growing chorus of lawmakers who say they support gay marriage.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In separate statements issued minutes apart, the two senators say their views on the issue have evolved.\u00a0 Donnelly says he reconsidered his opinion after recent Supreme Court arguments and public discussion on the issue.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Heitkamp says she now believes the federal government shouldn&#8217;t discriminate against &#8220;people who want to make lifelong, loving commitments to each other<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Donnelly and Heitkamp are the latest Democratic senators to support for gay marriage. That leaves only four Senate Democrats who have not endorsed gay marriage. Republican Sens. Mark Kirk of Illinois and Rob Portman of Ohio have also said they support gay marriage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Two freshman Democratic senators, Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, have joined the growing chorus of lawmakers who say they support gay marriage. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In separate statements issued minutes apart, the two senators say their views on the issue have evolved.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16112,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16110\/revisions\/16112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}