{"id":10079,"date":"2008-12-10T16:01:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/newsweek_draws_fire_for_poor_gay_marriage_article\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T16:01:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:01:32","slug":"newsweek_draws_fire_for_poor_gay_marriage_article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10079","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek draws fire for poor Same Sex Marriage Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/172653\/output\/print\">Read the whole Newsweek cover article first here please)<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting chapter and verse, [Richard] Land argued that the Bible lays out a very clear prescription for opposite-sex marriage, starting with the passage in Genesis where God pairs Adam and Eve and proceeding through Ephesians, in the New Testament, when the apostle Paul compares the relationship between husband and wife to the relationship between Jesus and the Church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can you address the subject of marriage from a religious perspective and utterly ignore the two foundational texts that deal with marriage: Genesis 2 and Ephesians 5?\u201d\u009d Land asked. \u201cIf a student turned a paper in to me on a religious argument for or against gay marriage and neglected to reference the two foundational texts, I would give them a pretty poor grade based on that alone.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to contesting Newsweek\u2019s specific scriptural arguments, some social conservatives took issue with the basic premise of the magazine\u2019s story: that conservative opposition to same-sex marriage is based on specific biblical instructions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see it as an attempt to caricature and reduce to a cartoon the social conservative belief in the efficacy of traditional marriage, and try to reduce it to some formulaic, scriptural literalism,\u201d\u009d said Ralph Reed, the former executive director of the Christian Coalition. \u201cThere\u2019s more of a practical, sociological foundation for why we seek to affirm marriage as an institution than I think is generally understood by those who want to legalize same-sex marriage.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dyn.politico.com\/printstory.cfm?uuid=181153E0-18FE-70B2-A8AE0EA8851CAD70\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Read the whole Newsweek cover article first here please). Quoting chapter and verse, [Richard] Land argued that the Bible lays out a very clear prescription for opposite-sex marriage, starting with the passage in Genesis where God pairs Adam and Eve<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10079\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,576,114,98,89,108,112,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-media","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}