{"id":644,"date":"2009-08-07T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T01:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=644"},"modified":"2009-08-07T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T01:16:16","slug":"%e2%80%98marriage%e2%80%99-why-corrupt-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/08\/07\/%e2%80%98marriage%e2%80%99-why-corrupt-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018marriage\u2019: why corrupt it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never quite understood what drives the militancy of the same sex lobby regarding the name for their relationship. If a same sex couple or triple for that matter, wish to live in that sort of relationship, why not come up with a name for it?<\/p>\n<p>Why choose a pre-existing word and corrupt its meaning?<\/p>\n<p>Marriage is a commitment between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Same sex is a relationship between two (or more?) people of the same sex. So please, let\u2019s find a word for it.<\/p>\n<p>I have been encouraged to read, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,25844824-5013404,00.html\">PM stares down gay marriage push<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KEVIN Rudd has guaranteed he will resist any attempt at this week&#8217;s Australian Labor Party conference to allow gay marriage or civil unions that mimic marriage.<\/p>\n<p>After the party&#8217;s Tasmanian branch narrowly backed a motion endorsing gay marriage at the weekend, the Prime Minister said through a spokesman yesterday that marriage was a commitment between a man and a woman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact that this idea comes from the Tasmanian ALP is a gentle reminder that not every idea that comes from Tasmania is a Gospel idea. Although much is, of course!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never quite understood what drives the militancy of the same sex lobby regarding the name for their relationship. If a same sex couple or triple for that matter, wish to live in that sort of relationship, why not &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/08\/07\/%e2%80%98marriage%e2%80%99-why-corrupt-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}