{"id":899,"date":"2015-04-28T12:59:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=899"},"modified":"2015-04-28T12:59:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:59:11","slug":"bill-donohue-on-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"Bill Donohue on marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have I ever mentioned that Christianity conceives of marriage as merely a cosmic license for sexual intercourse, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicleague.org\/love-need\/\" target=\"_blank\">in order to procreate<\/a>?  I think so.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Not only is love as a basis for marriage a relatively recent phenomenon &#8212; most marriages throughout history were arranged or based on duty &#8212; it is profoundly detached from the historical purpose of marriage, which is procreation. Once love is given primary status as a condition for marriage, the institution itself is no longer recognizable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have I ever mentioned that Christianity conceives of marriage as merely a cosmic license for sexual intercourse, in order to procreate? I think so. Not only is love as a basis for marriage a relatively recent phenomenon &#8212; most marriages &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=899\">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\/899"}],"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=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}