{"id":51057,"date":"2015-06-01T23:42:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51057"},"modified":"2015-06-01T23:42:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T15:42:10","slug":"merkels-party-resists-calls-to-embrace-full-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/01\/merkels-party-resists-calls-to-embrace-full-gay-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkel&#8217;s party resists calls to embrace full gay marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40867\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Angela-Merkel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40867\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Angela-Merkel.jpg\" alt=\"German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Facebook photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Angela-Merkel.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Angela-Merkel-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BERLIN \u2014 Leaders of German Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s conservative party are rejecting calls to embrace full-fledged marriage for gay couples following Irish voters&#8217; decision to legalize it.<\/p>\n<p>Same-sex couples in Germany have been able to enter civil unions that fall short of marriage since a center-left government introduced them in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel&#8217;s Christian Democratic Union has been reluctant to go further, though its coalition agreement with the center-left Social Democrats pledges to end &#8220;discrimination&#8221; against civil unions. The Cabinet recently approved administrative changes to improve their status.<\/p>\n<p>Several Social Democrat-led states are advocating full gay marriage, which has some supporters in Merkel&#8217;s CDU. General secretary Peter Tauber said Monday that party leaders want to take &#8220;no further steps beyond what is in the coalition deal,&#8221; news agency dpa reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN \u2014 Leaders of German Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s conservative party are rejecting calls to embrace full-fledged marriage for gay couples &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":40867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,483,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-politics","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}