{"id":804,"date":"2015-04-21T06:39:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T10:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2015-04-21T06:39:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T10:39:46","slug":"mohler-on-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"Mohler on marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prospect of a Supreme Court decision in favor of same-sex marriage is so distressing to the Southern Baptists that they are forgetting themselves and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/44591\" target=\"_blank\">speaking frankly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The biblical view of marriage is clear in the order of the natural world, Mohler said, since even societies outside the Judeo-Christian tradition have understood <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">marriage is for procreation<\/span> and should be an honored part of civilization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t come up with that in the 1950s,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I would argue we didn&#8217;t come up with that in Western civilization at all, that it was actually written in nature by the creator who made it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you add that to Mohler&#8217;s objections to the use of contraception, and his insistence that good, decent, godly people are always prepared to betray their family and friends on command &#8212; like Abraham &#8212; you have the picture: Marriage is a cosmic license for sexual intercourse, in order to produce li&#8217;l Baptists &#8212; <i>and that&#8217;s all<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>You have, too, the reason that family and social pathologies are so acute throughout the Southern Baptist south.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prospect of a Supreme Court decision in favor of same-sex marriage is so distressing to the Southern Baptists that they are forgetting themselves and speaking frankly. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=804\">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\/804"}],"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=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}