{"id":38343,"date":"2013-05-18T01:09:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T01:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/first_things_first_thoughts_david_mills-sam_sex_marriage_conformism\/"},"modified":"2013-05-18T01:09:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T01:09:31","slug":"first_things_first_thoughts_david_mills-sam_sex_marriage_conformism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38343","title":{"rendered":"(First Things First Thoughts) David Mills&#8211;Same Sex Marriage Conformism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;all this elite pressure wouldn\u2019t have worked even ten years ago, and certainly not twenty or thirty years ago. How could what then seemed a settled conviction about sexuality (or prejudice, if you wish) disappear so fast?<\/p>\n<p>[ Brendan ] O\u2019Neill has an answer, which seems to me correct. The non-elites proved susceptible to such pressures for a reason,  he notes. \u201cThe fragility of society\u2019s attachment to traditional marriage itself, to the virtue of commitment, has also been key to the formulation of the gay-marriage consensus. Indeed, it is the rubble upon which the gay-marriage edifice is built.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2013\/05\/16\/gay-marriage-conformism\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;all this elite pressure wouldn\u2019t have worked even ten years ago, and certainly not twenty or thirty years ago. How could what then seemed a settled conviction about sexuality (or prejudice, if you wish) disappear so fast? [ Brendan ]<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38343\">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":[39,576,133,98,117,129,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-history","category-marriage-family","category-philosophy","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38343","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=38343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}