{"id":9308,"date":"2013-03-27T18:15:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T22:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=9308"},"modified":"2013-03-27T18:22:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T22:22:56","slug":"doma-challenge-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/03\/27\/doma-challenge-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To DOMA&#8217;s Demise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most experts seem to think the U.S. Supreme Court will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2013\/03\/argument-recap-doma-is-in-trouble\/\">strike down DOMA<\/a>, thereby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/28\/us\/supreme-court-defense-of-marriage-act.html\">ending the federal ban on benefits to gay spouses.<\/a> The question is: Will they do it based upon equal protection, or states&#8217; rights? The former (seemingly supported by the four liberal Supremes) is vastly preferable,  but the later appears more likely; the perennial swing judge, Justice Anthony Kennedy, is more of a <a href=\"http:\/\/video.msnbc.msn.com\/mitchell-reports\/51350405#51350405\">states&#8217; rights<\/a> kinda guy.  <\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To DOMA&#8217;s Demise<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m GLAD to hear DOMA&#8217;s in trouble.<br \/>\nBut will Justices safe in their bubble<br \/>\nConcede that it&#8217;s wrong,<br \/>\nBeat the gong, say so long<br \/>\nTo treating gay couples like rubble?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most experts seem to think the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down DOMA, thereby ending the federal ban on benefits to gay spouses. The question is: Will they do it based upon equal protection, or states&#8217; rights? The former (seemingly supported by the four liberal Supremes) is vastly preferable, but the later appears more likely; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,640,153,20,1186,68,2,168,11,108,6,7,3,9,13],"tags":[307,1569,1568,2334,642,2846,1943,1902,1296,373,1619,643,2902,1278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9308"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9325,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308\/revisions\/9325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}