{"id":24862,"date":"2011-03-03T02:04:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T02:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_judith_maltby-churches_should_celebrate_bringing_god_into_civil_p\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T02:04:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T02:04:04","slug":"guardian_judith_maltby-churches_should_celebrate_bringing_god_into_civil_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24862","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Judith Maltby&#8211;Churches should celebrate bringing God into civil partnership ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage is under threat, we hear from some church leaders. Not by heterosexuals with an ever-increasing divorce rate, but by gay and lesbian people who want to express their religious faith in their civil partnership ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>Some leaders in my own church, the Church of England, as well as the Roman Catholic church have described this as an assault on religious liberty \u201d\u201c and no doubt there is an aggressive secularist agenda to embarrass the churches, though aggressive secularists should note that we are pretty good at doing that ourselves without their help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/belief\/2011\/feb\/26\/churches-celebrate-god-civil-partnership-ceremonies\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage is under threat, we hear from some church leaders. Not by heterosexuals with an ever-increasing divorce rate, but by gay and lesbian people who want to express their religious faith in their civil partnership ceremonies. Some leaders in my<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24862\">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":[36,39,50,576,74,389,579,199,114,98,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-churchstate-matters","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24862","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=24862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}