{"id":36742,"date":"2013-01-13T22:45:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/thinking_christian_why_same-sex_marriage_seems_to_make_sense_to_so_many\/"},"modified":"2013-01-13T22:45:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:45:45","slug":"thinking_christian_why_same-sex_marriage_seems_to_make_sense_to_so_many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36742","title":{"rendered":"(Thinking Christian) Why Same-Sex \u201cMarriage\u201d\u009d Seems To Make Sense To So Many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in October I explained why I think it is that same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d\u009d (SSM) makes so much sense to so many people. It&#8217;s because so many\u201d\u201dnot just SSM advocates\u201d\u201dhave bought into a distorted definition of marriage that goes something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marriage is the legally-recognized faithful, uniquely committed, loving, social, economic, and sexual union of two non-blood-related consenting adults of opposite sex\u201d\u00a6.Marriage carries with it certain legal, economic, and social benefits, not least of which is the social approval accorded to the partners\u2019 sexual relationship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does that sound about right to you? I&#8217;ve done informal surveys among Christians, and I&#8217;ve found that even many SSM opponents see marriage that way. They had better look out. It&#8217;s a view that&#8217;s centered entirely in the couple: their feelings, their benefits, their satisfaction. It&#8217;s all about the romantically loving pair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkingchristian.net\/worldview\/ethics\/life-and-choices\/2013\/01\/more-on-why-same-sex-marriage-seems-to-make-sense-to-so-many\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in October I explained why I think it is that same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d\u009d (SSM) makes so much sense to so many people. It&#8217;s because so many\u201d\u201dnot just SSM advocates\u201d\u201dhave bought into a distorted definition of marriage that goes something like<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36742\">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":[39,576,175,101,168,114,98,117,129,108,112,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-philosophy","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36742","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=36742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}