{"id":68212,"date":"2018-11-22T01:48:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T00:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/22\/sex-lies-and-heated-debate-taiwan-prepares-to-vote-in-gay-marriage-referendum\/"},"modified":"2018-11-22T01:48:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T00:48:23","slug":"sex-lies-and-heated-debate-taiwan-prepares-to-vote-in-gay-marriage-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=68212","title":{"rendered":"Sex, lies and heated debate: Taiwan prepares to vote in gay marriage referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The social media myths are spreading as Taiwan gets ready to decide on marriage equalityTaiwan is in the final days of a battle over the future of equality in the country, with conservatives campaigning fiercely against LGBT advocates over a referendum on same-sex marriage on Saturday.When Taiwan\u2019s highest court ruled last year that same-sex marriage should be legal, supporters rejoiced after waging a years-long battle for equality. But after conservative groups rallied against the change, the government announced a referendum on the issue in August. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/nov\/22\/taiwan-gay-marriage-referendum-vote\" target=\"_blank\">Sex, lies and heated debate: Taiwan prepares to vote in gay marriage referendum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The social media myths are spreading as Taiwan gets ready to decide on marriage equalityTaiwan is in the final days of a battle over the future of equality in the country, with conservatives campaigning fiercely against LGBT advocates over a referendum on same-sex marriage on Saturday.When Taiwan\u2019s highest court ruled [&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-68212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68212","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=68212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}