{"id":9496,"date":"2011-06-20T09:18:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T13:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=9496"},"modified":"2011-06-20T09:18:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T13:18:02","slug":"bahamas-supports-un-gay-rights-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/06\/bahamas-supports-un-gay-rights-resolution","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Supports UN Gay Rights Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas supports the United  Nations Human Rights Council resolution passed yesterday that affirms  equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people,  said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Brent  Symonette.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution, which narrowly passed in the council in Geneva,  Switzerland, expressed \u201cgrave concern\u201d about discrimination against gays  throughout the world and affirmed that freedom to choose sexuality is a  human right.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamas does not have a seat on the council, but is in favor of the resolution in principle, Symonette said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas supports the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution passed yesterday that affirms equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-9496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}