{"id":15935,"date":"2009-11-05T17:32:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T17:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/us_roman_catholic_bishops_praise_maines_marriage_vote\/"},"modified":"2009-11-05T17:32:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T17:32:17","slug":"us_roman_catholic_bishops_praise_maines_marriage_vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15935","title":{"rendered":"US Roman Catholic Bishops Praise Maine&#39;s Marriage Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The people of Maine voted to uphold the true nature of marriage as the union of one man and one woman,&#8221; noted Archbishop Kurtz. &#8220;Marriage is an institution which precedes all others, whether political or religious. It deserves the state\u2019s reinforcement and protection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the archbishop acknowledged that the Church&#8217;s opposition to gay &#8220;marriage&#8221; is hard for some to accept, he urged &#8220;all to respect it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Church &#8220;stands for the basic rights of all people,&#8221; he continued, and noted that it speaks out against discrimination or unjust treatment of any group of people.<\/p>\n<p>But the issue of marriage, the archbishop explained, &#8220;has nothing to do with denying basic rights to anyone, though it is often framed in such terms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/article-27448?l=english\">Read the whole article<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The people of Maine voted to uphold the true nature of marriage as the union of one man and one woman,&#8221; noted Archbishop Kurtz. &#8220;Marriage is an institution which precedes all others, whether political or religious. It deserves the state\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15935\">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":[39,42,576,114,98,154,108,364,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15935","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-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935","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=15935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}