{"id":6818,"date":"2006-08-09T06:33:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T10:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6818"},"modified":"2006-08-09T06:33:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T10:33:46","slug":"whiplash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6818","title":{"rendered":"WHIPLASH"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading through this one<\/a>, I thought possibly two stories got merged by accident:<\/p>\n

The most sweeping amendments, if passed, would ban civil unions and allow social conservatives to challenge the ability of governmental entities and private companies to offer domestic partnership benefits. Also in jeopardy, say legal experts, are parenting and real estate agreements, wills, powers of attorney, and other valuable legal documents that gay and lesbian couples are increasingly using to achieve some of the protections automatically provided by marriage.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re talking about language that very clearly bans civil unions and very broadly will ban anything and everything that would be a way for couples to protect each other,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Leslie Shear, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-chair of the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Family Law Project.<\/p>\n

For Vahey and Taylor, that would be a nightmare.<\/p>\n

And it would be a nightmare for Aurora Greane, too. Asked what grade she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in, Aurora doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a ready answer.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in a variety of grades,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d chirps the seven-and-a-half-year-old, who reads at the third and fourth grade level and spells at the second grade level.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s part of the beauty of homeschooling,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d explains her mother, Debra. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She can learn at whatever level she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Aurora is working on math problems alongside her mom as sun streams through the large windows of the family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new home in Madison, Wisconsin. The family moved to larger quarters to make room for Debra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elderly mom, who will soon be moving in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As is made clear a bit further down, the family is headed by two women. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading through this one, I thought possibly two stories got merged by accident: The most sweeping amendments, if passed, would ban civil unions and allow social conservatives to challenge the ability of governmental entities and private companies to offer domestic partnership benefits. Also in jeopardy, say legal experts, are parenting and real estate agreements, wills, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}