{"id":6096,"date":"2008-11-08T00:52:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T00:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2008\/11\/08\/ellen-degeneres-saddened-by-same-sex-marriage-ban\/"},"modified":"2008-11-08T00:52:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T00:52:17","slug":"ellen-degeneres-saddened-by-same-sex-marriage-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2008\/11\/08\/ellen-degeneres-saddened-by-same-sex-marriage-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen DeGeneres \u2018saddened\u2019 by same sex marriage ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Hollywood actress Ellen DeGeneres, who openly campaigned against the Proposition 8, is &#8220;saddened&#8221; with the passing of a ban on same-sex marriage in California.<br \/>\nThe talk show host, who married Hollywood actress Portia Rossi revealed that though by electing Obama America has taken a giant step forward, with the Proposition 8 amendment &#8220;took a giant step away&#8221;. &#8220;Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognised in California. America had taken a giant step toward equality by electing Barack Obama, but with the Proposition 8 amendment, took a giant step away,\u201d BBC quoted DeGeneres, as saying.<br \/>\nDeGeneres had also bought 100,000 dollars of TV airtime to campaign against the referendum.<br \/>\nThe 50-year-old actress revealed she would &#8220;continue to speak out for equality for all of us&#8221;.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Star Trek actor George Takei, who wed his partner Brad Altman in September, said it was &#8220;astounding to think the hard-won equality&#8221; that enabled his marriage to take place &#8220;would no longer be possible for others&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood actress Ellen DeGeneres, who openly campaigned against the Proposition 8, is &#8220;saddened&#8221; with the passing of a ban on same-sex marriage in California. The talk show host, who married Hollywood actress Portia Rossi revealed that though by electing Obama America has taken a giant step forward, with the Proposition 8 amendment &#8220;took a giant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}