{"id":10353,"date":"2015-11-13T01:26:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T08:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=10353"},"modified":"2015-11-13T01:26:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T08:26:18","slug":"marriage-equality-father-and-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/11\/13\/marriage-equality-father-and-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Equality &#8211; Father and Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That slippery slope doesn&#8217;t seem so fallacious when your sliding down at Mach 5&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10354\" title=\"father son marry\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/father-son-marry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/father-son-marry.jpg 304w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/father-son-marry-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2015\/11\/03\/father-adopted-son-seek-right-to-marry-each-other\/\" target=\"_blank\">father and his adopted son want to marry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If you asked Nino Esposito and his partner five years ago when they thought same-sex marriage would be legal, they\u2019d say the day would never come.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Prior to the Supreme Court\u2019s legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide, many gay couples used adoption laws as a way to gain legal family ties in order to get benefits, as reported by CNN.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This was the case for Esposito, a retired teacher, and his now adopted partner Roland &#8216;Drew&#8217; Bosee, a former freelance and technical writer. The couple went through with the adoption in 2012 after 40 years of being together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The couple is now trying to reverse the adoption in order to get married, but a state court judge has rejected that request saying adoption annulments are generally limited to cases of fraud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If law prohibits parent and child marriage, even when they are not blood related, than it prohibits parent and child marriage.\u00a0 If a mother can not marry her adopted son, or a father his adopted daughter, than then prohibiting these two is <em>exactly what real &#8220;marriage equality&#8221; looks like<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The ACLU has already demanding that a same sex parent child marriage be allowed because clearly &#8220;some\u2026 are more equal than other&#8221; it would seem.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Marriage Equality - Father and Son\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"That slippery slope doesn't seem so fallacious when your sliding down at Mach 5...\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/father-son-marry.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That slippery slope doesn&#8217;t seem so fallacious when your sliding down at Mach 5&#8230; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A father and his adopted son want to marry. &#8220;If you asked Nino Esposito and his partner five years ago when they thought same-sex marriage would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/11\/13\/marriage-equality-father-and-son\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[55,48],"class_list":["post-10353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-gender","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10398,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353\/revisions\/10398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}