{"id":352,"date":"2014-03-10T03:04:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T03:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/?p=352"},"modified":"2014-03-10T03:04:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T03:04:59","slug":"marriage-equality-in-illinois-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/blog\/marriage-equality-in-illinois-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Equality in Illinois Finally?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"605\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ha0kQXDNKQ8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"watch-uploader-info\">\n<strong>On the night that Illinois&#8217;s equal marriage rights bill went down to ignominious defeat, the Gay Liberation Network&#8217;s Bob Schwartz interviews GLN co-founder Andy Thayer, who came direct from the statehouse to the CAN TV studio.  They discuss the bill just an hour before its epic fail. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Examined in particular are House Speaker Mike Madigan&#8217;s role in debacle and the failed strategy of relying on backroom deal-making to win civil rights.<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally broadcast May 31, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->\n<!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night that Illinois&#8217;s equal marriage rights bill went down to ignominious defeat, the Gay Liberation Network&#8217;s Bob Schwartz interviews GLN co-founder Andy Thayer, who came direct from the statehouse to the CAN TV studio. They discuss the bill &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/blog\/marriage-equality-in-illinois-finally\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marriage Equality in Illinois Finally?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,139,4],"tags":[16,266,111,104,77,13],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gln-can-tv-call-in-show","category-lgbt-rights-2","category-marriage-equality","tag-andy-thayer","tag-bob-schwartz","tag-can-tv","tag-gay-liberation-network","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-marriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bCot-5G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}