{"id":7904,"date":"2012-11-27T22:20:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T05:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=7904"},"modified":"2012-11-27T22:45:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T05:45:55","slug":"wa-marriagedivorce-certificates-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wa-marriagedivorce-certificates-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"WA. Marriage\/Divorce Certificates Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7906\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gayduo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7906\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7906\" title=\"Did you invite your mom?\" src=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gayduo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gayduo.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gayduo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Legal in Washington State<\/p><\/div>\n<h1><strong>Marriage equality vote means marriage\/divorce certificates must change<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Public hearing Nov. 28 for comments on changes in gender-specific terms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>OLYMPIA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; The Department of Health is seeking comments from the public on proposed changes in gender-specific terms for Washington\u2019s marriage and divorce certificates in response to the new same-sex marriage law that takes effect on December 6, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>A public hearing will be held at 8 a.m., Wednesday, November 28, at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.doh.wa.gov\/AboutUs\/DepartmentofHealth\/OfficeHoursandLocations\/TumwaterPointPlazaEast.aspx\">310 Israel Road SE, Rooms 152-153<\/a>, in Tumwater. The department collects records of all people who marry or divorce in Washington, and issues copies of records to the public. Current forms use gender-specific terms, including bride, groom, husband, and wife. State health officials propose using gender-neutral terms on certificates. The proposal includes identifying the gender of couples on the certificate form, so the public will have information about the number of same-sex couples in Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.doh.wa.gov\/policyreview\/\">Proposed changes to the rule<\/a>\u00a0defining the content of Washington marriage and divorce certificates (WAC 246-491-149) are available on the agency\u2019s website. Written comments on the proposed rule change will be accepted until 5 p.m. on November 28, 2012.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.doh.wa.gov\/policyreview\/\">Comments may be submitted online<\/a>\u00a0or by writing to Washington State Department of Health, P.O. Box 47814, Olympia, WA 98504-7814.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doh.wa.gov\/Home.aspx\">The Department of Health website<\/a>\u00a0(doh.wa.gov) is your source for a healthy dose of information. Also,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Washington-State-Department-of-Health\/117762158270896\">find us on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/WA_DeptofHealth\">follow us on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7908\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gayduo4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7908\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7908\" title=\"We do indeed!\" src=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gayduo4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gayduo4.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gayduo4-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double-Ring Ceremony<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage equality vote means marriage\/divorce certificates must change Public hearing Nov. 28 for comments on changes in gender-specific terms OLYMPIA\u00a0&#8211; The Department of Health is seeking comments from the public on proposed changes in gender-specific terms for Washington\u2019s marriage and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wa-marriagedivorce-certificates-changing\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7907,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions\/7907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}