{"id":38672,"date":"2013-06-12T15:15:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T15:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_magazine_the_gay_people_against_gay_marriage\/"},"modified":"2013-06-12T15:15:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T15:15:56","slug":"bbc_magazine_the_gay_people_against_gay_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38672","title":{"rendered":"(BBC Magazine) The gay people against gay marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After France&#8217;s first same-sex marriage, and a vote in the UK Parliament which puts England and Wales on course for gay weddings next summer, two US Supreme Court rulings expected soon could hasten the advance of same-sex marriage across the Atlantic. But some gay people remain opposed. Why?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s demonstrably not the same as heterosexual marriage &#8211; the religious and social significance of a gay wedding ceremony simply isn&#8217;t the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Soroff lives in liberal Massachusetts with his male partner, Sam. He doesn&#8217;t fit the common stereotype of an opponent of gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>But like half of his friends, he does not believe that couples of the same gender should marry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-22758434\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After France&#8217;s first same-sex marriage, and a vote in the UK Parliament which puts England and Wales on course for gay weddings next summer, two US Supreme Court rulings expected soon could hasten the advance of same-sex marriage across the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38672\">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":[39,50,42,576,209,199,200,114,155,117,129,108,424,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-americau-s-a","category-england-uk","category-europe","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-philosophy","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-secularism","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38672","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=38672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}