{"id":178,"date":"2012-04-03T18:29:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T18:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graylaw.com\/sandbox\/?p=178"},"modified":"2016-11-30T18:30:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:30:27","slug":"defense-of-marriage-act-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/2012\/04\/03\/defense-of-marriage-act-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense of Marriage Act Challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration advocates have filed a law suit on behalf of married couples who are denied immigration benefits solely because they are of the same-sex.\u00a0 The lawsuit challenges the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which defines marriage for Federal purposes as between a man and a woman.\u00a0 While these couples are legally married for state purposes, they are excluded from Federal marriage benefits including tax benefits, social security benefits and immigration benefits. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jXXgLUHd8hiTCM6c_d7RJkr80Tlg?docId=2726652d21304b82bc20794e64e7f71a\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration advocates have filed a law suit on behalf of married couples who are denied immigration benefits solely because they are of the same-sex.\u00a0 The lawsuit challenges the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which defines marriage for Federal purposes as between a man and a woman.\u00a0 While these couples are legally married for state purposes, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}