{"id":50810,"date":"2015-07-15T02:26:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T02:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gr_terry_mattingly-amidst_recent_msm_thinkpieces_on_same-sex_marriage_and_\/"},"modified":"2015-07-15T02:26:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T02:26:42","slug":"gr_terry_mattingly-amidst_recent_msm_thinkpieces_on_same-sex_marriage_and_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50810","title":{"rendered":"(GR) Terry Mattingly&#8211;Amidst recent MSM thinkpieces on same-sex marriage and religion-1 good article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From all this, the Religion Guy draws three conclusions for journalists.<\/p>\n<p>*Religious groups and their beliefs are far more complex than the news media typically indicate.<\/p>\n<p>* Strong internal disagreements afflict several denominations \u201d\u201c the biggest right out in the open being the United Methodist Church \u201d\u201c and will continue to make news.<\/p>\n<p>* Finally, and most obvious, a sizable and variegated lineup of religious believers feels bound to strongly resist America\u2019s new redefinition of marriage for the indefinite future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2015\/6\/30\/amid-all-the-msm-thumbsuckers-about-gay-marriage-and-religion-one-piece-stands-out\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From all this, the Religion Guy draws three conclusions for journalists. *Religious groups and their beliefs are far more complex than the news media typically indicate. * Strong internal disagreements afflict several denominations \u201d\u201c the biggest right out in the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50810\">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":[39,50,209,175,168,98,89,108,109,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-media","category-religion-culture","category-sociology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50810","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=50810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}