{"id":41148,"date":"2013-11-20T22:10:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T22:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_survey_same-sex_couples_create_own_rules_in_wedding_planning\/"},"modified":"2013-11-20T22:10:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T22:10:33","slug":"rns_survey_same-sex_couples_create_own_rules_in_wedding_planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41148","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Survey: Same-sex couples create own rules in wedding planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> a new survey has found that same-sex weddings differ in distinct ways from heterosexual nuptials, and that gay and lesbian couples also vary significantly from each other.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, produced by Community Marketing &#038; Insights, a gay research company, and The Gay Wedding Institute, questioned 916 same-sex couples in the United States who are married (57 percent), in a domestic partnership (19 percent), engaged (18 percent) or in a civil union (5 percent).<\/p>\n<p>The survey found religious leaders officiated at just one in four same-sex marriages, and that only 12 percent of ceremonies were held in religious spaces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2013\/11\/19\/survey-sex-couples-create-rules-wedding-planning\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a new survey has found that same-sex weddings differ in distinct ways from heterosexual nuptials, and that gay and lesbian couples also vary significantly from each other. The survey, produced by Community Marketing &#038; Insights, a gay research company, and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41148\">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":[48,39,42,576,183,98,155,108,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41148","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=41148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}