{"id":32451,"date":"2012-05-11T16:15:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T16:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_obama_and_same_sex_marriage_in_u-s-_religion_the_golden_rule_rules\/"},"modified":"2012-05-11T16:15:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T16:15:46","slug":"rns_obama_and_same_sex_marriage_in_u-s-_religion_the_golden_rule_rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32451","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Obama and Same Sex Marriage: In U.S. religion, the Golden Rule rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, one of the most striking aspects of Obama\u2019s revelation on Wednesday (May 9) that he and his wife, Michelle, support marriage rights for gays and lesbians, is that he invoked their Christian faith to support his views. In past years, Obama \u201d\u201c as many believers still do \u201d\u201c had cited his religious beliefs to oppose gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Obama told ABC News that he and the first lady \u201care both practicing Christians and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others but, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, but it&#8217;s also the Golden Rule, you know, treat others the way you would want to be treated.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/culture\/gender-and-sexuality\/obama-and-gay-marriage-in-u.s.-religion-the-golden-rule-rules\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, one of the most striking aspects of Obama\u2019s revelation on Wednesday (May 9) that he and his wife, Michelle, support marriage rights for gays and lesbians, is that he invoked their Christian faith to support his views. In<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32451\">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":[39,40,576,168,114,98,616,151,667,108,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32451","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=32451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}