{"id":46241,"date":"2014-05-21T14:28:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T19:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=46241"},"modified":"2014-05-23T22:39:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T03:39:46","slug":"dakotas-only-states-no-lawsuits-pending-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=46241","title":{"rendered":"ND Only State No Gay Marriage Lawsuits Pending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HELENA, Mont. (AP) \u2013 Four gay couples are suing Montana over its constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>SIOUX FALLS, S.D. \u2013 \u00a0Six couples filed a federal lawsuit Thursday seeking to block South Dakota&#8217;s gay marriage ban, leaving North Dakota as the only state in the country with an unchallenged law prohibiting same-sex weddings.<\/p>\n<p>State marriage bans have been falling around the country since the U.S. Supreme Court last year struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.<\/p>\n<p>THOMPSON, N.D. (AP) &#8211; An eastern North Dakota mayor is joining other municipal leaders around the country in supporting same-sex marriage, becoming the first mayor in the state to formally join the effort.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson Mayor Karyn Hippen says she&#8217;s proud to be the 400th member to join Mayors for the Freedom to Marry, a coalition of same-sex marriage supporting mayors organized by an advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson says she has a 23-year-old son who is gay and wants to see him get married someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HELENA, Mont. (AP) \u2013 Four gay couples are suing Montana over its constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. \u2013 \u00a0Six couples filed a federal lawsuit Thursday seeking to block South Dakota&#8217;s gay marriage ban, leaving North Dakota as the only state in the country with an unchallenged law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46241","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\/46241","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=46241"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46251,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46241\/revisions\/46251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}