{"id":49987,"date":"2013-01-30T11:35:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=49987"},"modified":"2013-01-30T11:36:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T09:36:52","slug":"ea-joins-group-to-oppose-defense-of-marriage-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/49987-ea-joins-group-to-oppose-defense-of-marriage-act","title":{"rendered":"EA supports gay rights, opposes Defense of Marriage Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts has stepped-in to oppose the United States Defense of Marriage Act, in a continuing show of support for equal rights \u2013 something the company has been backing strongly.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense of Marriage Act defines a marriage as between one man and one woman, which results in federal rights, such as joint taxes, unpaid leave for sick spouses and social security, to only be eligible for male\/female marriages.<\/p>\n<p>EA has now joined a coalition of businesses which form the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). The HRC supports the Respect for Marriage Act, which recognises all legal marriages for the mentioned federal purposes.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"HRC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">HRC<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More news from EA:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47508-ea-scores-a-perfect-rating-for-gay-and-lesbian-equality.html\">EA scores a perfect rating for gay and lesbian equality<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44888-ea-backs-gaymercon.html\">EA backs Gaymercon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49669-ea-marketing-campaign-designed-to-trick-customers-developer.html\">EA marketing campaign designed to trick customers: developer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47433-ea-origin-accounts-hacked.html\">EA Origin accounts hacked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA teams up with the Human Rights Campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":47509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,175,813,6072,7759,5730,6073],"class_list":["post-49987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-ea","tag-electronic-arts","tag-gaymercon","tag-human-rights-campaign","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbt-gamers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}