{"id":58543,"date":"2013-12-12T19:36:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T15:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=58543"},"modified":"2013-12-12T19:36:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T15:36:20","slug":"australian-judges-overturn-law-allowing-gay-marriage-and-declare-27-weddings-invalid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=58543","title":{"rendered":"Australian judges overturn law allowing gay marriage and declare 27 weddings invalid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/australia-marriage-invalid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-58540\" alt=\"\u0531\u057e\u057d\u057f\u0580\u0561\u056c\u056b\u0561,\u0576\u0578\u0582\u0575\u0576\u0561\u057d\u0565\u057c\u0561\u056f\u0561\u0576\u0576\u0565\u0580\u056b \u0561\u0574\u0578\u0582\u057d\u0576\u0578\u0582\u0569\u0575\u0578\u0582\u0576\u0576\u0565\u0580, \u0585\u0580\u0565\u0576\u0584\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/australia-marriage-invalid.jpg\" width=\"507\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/australia-marriage-invalid.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/australia-marriage-invalid-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/australia-marriage-invalid-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s highest court has overturned a landmark law which had begun allowing the country&#8217;s first gay marriages.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government challenged the validity of the Australian Capital Territory&#8217;s law that had allowed gay marriages in the nation&#8217;s capital and its surrounding area from last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It means at least 27 weddings have been deemed invalid.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government&#8217;s lawyer argued that having different marriage laws in various Australian states and territories would create confusion.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court unanimously ruled that the ACT&#8217;s law could not operate concurrently with the federal Marriage Act, which was amended in 2004 to define marriage as between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Gay marriage has legal recognition in 18 countries as well as 16 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Australia&#8217;s highest court has overturned a landmark law which had begun allowing the country&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[4866,4867],"class_list":["post-58543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-australian-judge","tag-gay-marriaged","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}