{"id":10212,"date":"2008-12-17T18:33:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T18:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mahan_siler_should_the_church_get_out_of_the_business_of_legalizing_marriag\/"},"modified":"2008-12-17T18:33:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T18:33:20","slug":"mahan_siler_should_the_church_get_out_of_the_business_of_legalizing_marriag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10212","title":{"rendered":"Mahan Siler: Should the church get out of the business of legalizing marriage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if we disentangled the church from the state on this matter, framing this debate, not as one, but as two important debates?<\/p>\n<p>There is the civil debate: Should the government legalize gay marriage, thereby extending to same-sex couples the same responsibilities and benefits granted to opposite-sex married couples? What public policy best serves the common good?<\/p>\n<p>There is the religious debate: Does the theological definition of the sanctity of marriage include the blessing of same-sex unions?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=200881127009\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if we disentangled the church from the state on this matter, framing this debate, not as one, but as two important debates? There is the civil debate: Should the government legalize gay marriage, thereby extending to same-sex couples the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10212\">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":[48,39,576,114,183,98,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-law-legal-issues","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212","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=10212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}