{"id":28486,"date":"2011-09-28T17:56:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T17:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/thisday_nigerian_archbishop_okoh_speaks_on_marriage_and_slipping_sexual_sta\/"},"modified":"2011-09-28T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T17:56:01","slug":"thisday_nigerian_archbishop_okoh_speaks_on_marriage_and_slipping_sexual_sta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28486","title":{"rendered":"(Thisday) Nigerian Archbishop Okoh Speaks on Marriage and Slipping Sexual Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s through marriage that people should enter into true sexual life. It\u2019s not the process of re-inventing the third person because God did not invent the marriage between two same-sex persons as the cases in homosexuality and lesbianism.\u201d\u009d He admonished those practising it to repent and come out of it because it\u2019s evil.<\/p>\n<p>The cleric argued that if God considered that yet another man was what Adam needed as companion and help mate in the Garden of Eden, He would have created another man, not a woman for Adam, stressing that, \u201cHe did not do that but rather created a unique person in the form of a woman different from the man.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He lamented that there is moral decadence pervading the labyrinth of society in so much a way that hitherto despicable acts like lesbianism and homosexuality are gradually being decorated with public appeal and now receiving tolerance and even applause in today\u2019s society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/world.myjoyonline.com\/pages\/news\/201109\/73166.php\">Read it all (another from the long queue of should-have-already-been-posted material<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s through marriage that people should enter into true sexual life. It\u2019s not the process of re-inventing the third person because God did not invent the marriage between two same-sex persons as the cases in homosexuality and lesbianism.\u201d\u009d He admonished<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28486\">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":[36,39,74,175,67,390,168,78,75,64,98,108,514,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-nigeria","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-global-south-churches-primates","category-instruments-of-unity","category-lambeth-2008","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28486","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=28486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}