{"id":24519,"date":"2011-02-12T22:34:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T22:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/r-i-_catholic_in_rhode_island_leaders_of_several_faiths_rally_in_support_of\/"},"modified":"2011-02-12T22:34:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T22:34:49","slug":"r-i-_catholic_in_rhode_island_leaders_of_several_faiths_rally_in_support_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24519","title":{"rendered":"(R.I. Catholic) In Rhode Island Leaders of several faiths rally in support of Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop [Thomas] Tobin has found strong support for his position on same-sex marriage in Episcopal Bishop Geralyn Wolf and in Imam Farid Ansari, of the Muslim America Dawah Center of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Council for Muslim Advancement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Rhode Island, I firmly support the traditional definition of marriage as the union between one male and one female,\u201d\u009d Bishop Wolf said in a statement released to Rhode Island Catholic in January. \u201cI believe that Holy Matrimony is a sacred religious rite, whose definition should not be re-interpreted by legislation or civil courts.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released by the Media Committee of the Rhode Island for Muslim Advancement, the Islamic community of Rhode Island \u201caffirms the standards set forth in the Torah, Gospel and Holy Qur\u2019an on the issue of same-sex relationships and marriage.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thericatholic.com\/news\/detail.html?sub_id=3838\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop [Thomas] Tobin has found strong support for his position on same-sex marriage in Episcopal Bishop Geralyn Wolf and in Imam Farid Ansari, of the Muslim America Dawah Center of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Council for Muslim Advancement.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24519\">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":[36,39,42,576,66,161,426,114,98,154,155,108,364,112,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-sexuality","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519","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=24519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}