{"id":6801,"date":"2011-01-29T22:14:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T11:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2011-01-29T22:14:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T11:14:27","slug":"protecting-the-sanctity-of-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/01\/29\/protecting-the-sanctity-of-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting the Sanctity of Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">I received a letter recently from Senator Stephen Parry: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dear John<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">I have recently received a petition from the Tasmanian Council of Churches to which you were a signatory where you indicated strong support for protecting the traditional understanding of the definition of marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Whilst I am committed to maintaining the Australian tradition of tolerance and respect I, like you, believe very strongly that the union of Marriage between man and woman is sacrosanct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">As such I will argue to uphold the sanctity of marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Thank you for taking the time to sign the petition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Yours sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Senator Stephen Parry<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Chief Oppositon Whip in the Senate<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Deputy Manager for Opposition Business in the Senate<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a letter recently from Senator Stephen Parry: Dear John I have recently received a petition from the Tasmanian Council of Churches to which you were a signatory where you indicated strong support for protecting the traditional understanding of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/01\/29\/protecting-the-sanctity-of-marriage\/\">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\/6801"}],"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=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6905,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions\/6905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}