{"id":16806,"date":"2009-12-21T01:03:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T01:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_archdiocese_says_vote_legalizing_gay_marriage_regrettable\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T01:03:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T01:03:27","slug":"washington_archdiocese_says_vote_legalizing_gay_marriage_regrettable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16806","title":{"rendered":"Washington Archdiocese says vote legalizing gay marriage regrettable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Archdiocese expressed regret that a District of Columbia bill to legalize same-sex marriage was approved despite church opposition and without protecting religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since this legislation was first introduced in October, the Archdiocese of Washington opposed the redefinition of marriage based on the core teaching of the Catholic Church that the complementarity of man and woman is intrinsic to the definition of marriage,&#8221; said an archdiocesan statement Dec. 15.<\/p>\n<p>However, the archdiocese said that because &#8220;the City Council was committed to legalizing same-sex marriages,&#8221; it had advocated for a bill that would balance that action with protecting religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/0905553.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Archdiocese expressed regret that a District of Columbia bill to legalize same-sex marriage was approved despite church opposition and without protecting religious freedom. &#8220;Since this legislation was first introduced in October, the Archdiocese of Washington opposed the redefinition<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16806\">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":[39,42,576,114,154,108,364,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16806","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=16806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}