{"id":217,"date":"2013-04-23T17:33:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2013-04-23T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:33:53","slug":"france-legalizes-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/france-legalizes-gay-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"France Legalizes Gay Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite angry protests, <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/04\/23\/17879169-france-legalizes-gay-marriage-despite-angry-protests?lite\" target=\"_blank\">France legalizes gay marriage today<\/a>, becoming the 14th country to do so. The bill also allows gays to adopt and allows the use of surrogacy. A celebration indeed!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>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.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> 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.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The law also allows same-sex couples to adopt children.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> \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.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Opponents of the law have held increasingly angry protests in recent weeks, including a string of confrontations with police in Paris.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> They fought hard to scuttle the parliamentary bill because it also allows the use of surrogate motherhood by gay couples wanting children.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The debate is also blamed for fanning a spate of homophobic attacks, including the beating up of a 24-year-old in the southern city of Nice on Saturday, Reuters reported.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite angry protests, F<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[16,88,98,222],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surrogacy-2","category-uncategorized","tag-adoption","tag-france","tag-gay-marriage","tag-surrogacy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}