{"id":8391,"date":"2011-08-16T15:58:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T04:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2011-08-16T16:45:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T05:45:35","slug":"national-marriage-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/08\/16\/national-marriage-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Marriage Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PARLIAMENT HOUSE GREAT HALL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 16th August 2011, 10am to 12pm<\/p>\n<p>It has recently been announced that on 17th August MP&#8217;s will be asked to report to Parliament the views of their electorate on same-sex &#8220;marriage&#8221;.<br \/>\nIt is now more urgent than ever to gather your friends, neighbours, church group and colleagues and come to Canberra on August 16th.<br \/>\nMarriage is too important for you to sit by and leave it to someone else to defend. At times like these it is crowds that talk!<\/p>\n<p>Please pray that our politicians will exercise wisdom and retain the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p>More information at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriageday.org.au\/\">http:\/\/www.marriageday.org.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See my letters to politicians and some of their replies re Tasmanian Synod decision on marriage, <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/08\/04\/definition-of-marriage-letter-responses\/\">Definition of marriage: letter responses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/opinion\/contributors\/leave-bert-and-ernie-alone-they-are-not-gay-advocates-20110815-1iunu.html\">Leave Bert and Ernie alone. They are not gay advocates<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARLIAMENT HOUSE GREAT HALL Tuesday 16th August 2011, 10am to 12pm It has recently been announced that on 17th August MP&#8217;s will be asked to report to Parliament the views of their electorate on same-sex &#8220;marriage&#8221;. It is now more &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/08\/16\/national-marriage-day\/\">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\/8391"}],"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=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8400,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions\/8400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}