{"id":50521,"date":"2015-06-27T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_ross_douthat-gay_conservatism_and_straight_liberation\/"},"modified":"2015-06-27T18:40:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T18:40:13","slug":"nyt_ross_douthat-gay_conservatism_and_straight_liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50521","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Ross Douthat&#8211;&#39;Gay Conservatism and Straight Liberation&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in one of the ironies in which the arc of history specializes, while the conservative case for same-sex marriage triumphed in politics, the liberationist case <i>against<\/i> marriage\u2019s centrality to human flourishing was winning in the wider culture.<\/p>\n<p>You would not know this from Kennedy\u2019s opinion, which is relentlessly upbeat about how \u201cnew insights have strengthened, not weakened\u201d\u009d marriage, bringing \u201cnew dimensions of freedom\u201d\u009d to society.<\/p>\n<p>But the central \u201cnew dimension of freedom\u201d\u009d being claimed by straight America is a freedom <i>from marriage<\/i> \u201d\u201d from the institution as traditionally understood, and from wedlock and family, period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/28\/opinion\/sunday\/ross-douthat-gay-marriage-and-straight-liberation.html\">Read it all<\/a> (emphasis and article title his).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in one of the ironies in which the arc of history specializes, while the conservative case for same-sex marriage triumphed in politics, the liberationist case against marriage\u2019s centrality to human flourishing was winning in the wider culture. You would not<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50521\">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":[39,40,576,175,101,168,133,114,98,151,129,108,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50521","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=50521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}