{"id":45738,"date":"2018-06-18T02:50:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/18\/philippine-lawyer-finds-unlikely-ally-in-duterte-in-fight-to-legalise-gay-marriage\/"},"modified":"2018-06-18T02:50:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T00:50:08","slug":"philippine-lawyer-finds-unlikely-ally-in-duterte-in-fight-to-legalise-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=45738","title":{"rendered":"Philippine lawyer finds unlikely ally in Duterte in fight to legalise gay marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus Falcis has taken his battle to the supreme court, backed by a president who regularly clashes with the Catholic churchIn the Philippines, where Catholicism is dominant and divorce is still illegal, a young atheist, openly gay lawyer is leading a historic fight for same-sex marriage.Jesus Falcis, 31, will face the supreme court on Tuesday to argue that a law limiting marriage to a man and a woman violates the 1987 Philippine Constitution, which he said doesn\u2019t make gender specifications on who can be married. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jun\/18\/philippines-lawyer-gay-marriage-duterte-church\" target=\"_blank\">Philippine lawyer finds unlikely ally in Duterte in fight to legalise gay marriage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus Falcis has taken his battle to the supreme court, backed by a president who regularly clashes with the Catholic churchIn the Philippines, where Catholicism is dominant and divorce is still illegal, a young atheist, openly gay lawyer is leading a historic fight for same-sex marriage.Jesus Falcis, 31, will face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}