{"id":55712,"date":"2016-09-19T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pd_doug_mainwaring_same-sex_marriage_vs-_the_real_thing_a_view_of_the_big_p\/"},"modified":"2016-09-19T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T17:00:02","slug":"pd_doug_mainwaring_same-sex_marriage_vs-_the_real_thing_a_view_of_the_big_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55712","title":{"rendered":"(PD) Doug Mainwaring: Same-Sex Marriage vs. the Real Thing: A View of the Big Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What we now see is occurring because Christians have allowed our own minds to become dull, darkened, and depraved. We\u2019ve allowed this to happen, not out of malice toward God or bad intentions, but because our passive minds have resulted in passive lives and a weakened, impotent, wandering, and often confusing and contradictory witness to the Gospel and the life of Christ within.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, the world has done a better job of evangelizing us to its ways than we have of evangelizing the world to the magnificent good news of the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p><b>Upholding constitutional rights and the human dignity of those who are same-sex attracted is a matter of basic human decency. But same-sex marriage is something completely different<\/b>. As a gay man, allow me to make what is perhaps a startling declaration: same-sex marriage is a great coup for the devil, far greater than individual homosexual acts or relationships ever were or ever could be. Same-sex marriage mocks Christ\u2019s relationship with his Bride, the Church. That is the source of the fury being hurled at those who speak out against same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2016\/09\/17513\">Read it all<\/a> (emphasis mine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we now see is occurring because Christians have allowed our own minds to become dull, darkened, and depraved. We\u2019ve allowed this to happen, not out of malice toward God or bad intentions, but because our passive minds have resulted<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55712\">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":[39,576,175,168,98,108,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55712","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=55712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}