{"id":1555,"date":"2009-05-23T12:54:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T17:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2009-06-05T13:12:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T18:12:19","slug":"glbtq-victory-in-sc-state-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/23\/glbtq-victory-in-sc-state-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory in the SC State House!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to quick mobilizing among activists in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\">SC Progressive Network<\/a> and our allies in the legislature,\u00a0H 3543 &#8212;\u00a0the teen dating bill that was amended to include language discriminatory to LGBTQ youth &#8212; did not advance before the session adjourned last week. (For a brief background on the bill, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/18\/press-event-to-oppose-amendment-to-dating-violence-bill\/\">click here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our member groups\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpride.org\/\">SC Pride<\/a>, Columbia-PFLAG, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanslastwish.org\/\">Sean&#8217;s Last Wish<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scequality.org\/\">SC Equality<\/a> for a job well done. And thanks to Reps.\u00a0Gilda Cobb-Hunter, James Smith,\u00a0Chris Hart and Ken Kennedy for speaking against the amendment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please take a moment to contact them and express your appreciation. They need to know they aren&#8217;t fighting alone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact information<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rep. Cobb-Hunter: gch@schouse.org or 803-734-2809<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rep. Smith: RepSmith@JamesSmith.org or 803-734-2997<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rep. Hart: HartC@schouse.org or\u00a0803-771-7701<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rep. Ken Kennedy: KK@schouse.org or 803-426-2492<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bill may be taken up when the legislature reconvenes in January. We&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to quick mobilizing among activists in the SC Progressive Network and our allies in the legislature,\u00a0H 3543 &#8212;\u00a0the teen dating bill that was amended to include language discriminatory to LGBTQ youth &#8212; did not advance before the session adjourned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/23\/glbtq-victory-in-sc-state-house\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents","category-sc-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}