{"id":35910,"date":"2012-11-28T03:15:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T03:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rusty_reno-the_debate_about_same_sex_unions_is_really_about_sex_and_human_\/"},"modified":"2012-11-28T03:15:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T03:15:39","slug":"rusty_reno-the_debate_about_same_sex_unions_is_really_about_sex_and_human_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35910","title":{"rendered":"Rusty Reno&#8211;The Debate About Same Sex Unions is really about sex and human identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debate about gay marriage is about sex and human identity, not homosexuality. Or, more accurately, it\u2019s about homosexuality because it\u2019s about sex and human identity. The progressive claim that we have a right to sexual expression is why they regard contraceptives and abortion as essential rights. It\u2019s also one reason why our society is deeply committed to no-fault divorce.<\/p>\n<p>Social conservatives like me don\u2019t have a single view about how to respond to these contemporary realities. We don\u2019t have a single view about how to grapple with the social reality of open and affirmed homosexuality in our society. But I think it\u2019s fair to say that we all reject the progressive presumption that to have sexual desires creates a prima facie moral right to express them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2012\/11\/27\/more-on-sex-marriage-and-politics\/#more-51643\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debate about gay marriage is about sex and human identity, not homosexuality. Or, more accurately, it\u2019s about homosexuality because it\u2019s about sex and human identity. The progressive claim that we have a right to sexual expression is why they<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35910\">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":[36,39,40,576,175,168,114,98,151,108,112,79,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35910","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=35910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}