{"id":29720,"date":"2011-12-06T17:35:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/down_under_on_same_sex_marriage-division_in_the_pews_but_most_faiths_say_i\/"},"modified":"2011-12-06T17:35:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:35:22","slug":"down_under_on_same_sex_marriage-division_in_the_pews_but_most_faiths_say_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29720","title":{"rendered":"Down Under on Same Sex Marriage&#8211;Division in the pews but most faiths say: &#39;I don&#39;t&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Peter Jensen&#8230;expressed his profound disappointment yesterday with Labor&#8217;s endorsement of gay marriage at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;This is not a matter of equality, but of trying to force respect by changing the definition of one of the fundamentals of our society,&#8221; he said. &#8221;I hope MPs will use the conscience vote to send a powerful signal of support for the integrity and true meaning of marriage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the condemnation from many senior religious leaders to the party&#8217;s decision has been near universal, in this fight not all of their faith communities could be in their corner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/division-in-the-pews-but-most-faiths-say-i-dont-20111205-1ofjm.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Peter Jensen&#8230;expressed his profound disappointment yesterday with Labor&#8217;s endorsement of gay marriage at the weekend. &#8221;This is not a matter of equality, but of trying to force respect by changing the definition of one of the fundamentals of our<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29720\">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":[36,39,50,576,395,74,204,114,98,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-australia-nz","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\/29720","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=29720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}