{"id":772,"date":"2015-04-17T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T10:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=772"},"modified":"2015-04-17T05:47:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T09:47:45","slug":"what-is-marriage-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"What is marriage about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve insisted for years that, if you listen closely and think carefully, you can&#8217;t avoid the conclusion that Christian teaching endorses animal husbandry but is hostile to marriage &#8212; that is, to the idea that marriage has something to do with two people building satisfying lives together.  Now comes a collection of state affiliates of <i>Focus on the Family<\/i> to argue exactly that in a <a href=\"http:\/\/engage.citizenlink.com\/site\/DocServer\/Amicus_Brief.pdf?docID=181\" target=\"_blank\">brief filed with the Supreme Court<\/a> in the upcoming same-sex marriage case.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Redefining marriage, moreover, would seriously erode the existing marital norm that encourages gender-diverse parenting.  By itself, the fact that marriage is defined as the union of a man and a woman makes clear to society that <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">marriage is really about procreation and children<\/span>, and that it is expected to carry with it both a masculine and a feminine aspect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just so&#8217;s you know, the theological reason that marriage has nothing to do with two people working and cooperating together toward building the lives they want is that self-direction is a presumption upon the absolute sovereignty of the Invisible Wizard, who has a Mysterious Plan and will <i>tell<\/i> you what you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve insisted for years that, if you listen closely and think carefully, you can&#8217;t avoid the conclusion that Christian teaching endorses animal husbandry but is hostile to marriage &#8212; that is, to the idea that marriage has something to do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=772\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}