{"id":27846,"date":"2012-05-09T22:43:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T04:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/09\/marriage-2.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T13:44:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T20:44:25","slug":"marriage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/09\/marriage-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Granted, I can&#39;t read that word on its own without thinking of Peter Cook in <i>The Princess Bride<\/i> &#8230; that said &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I love my wife.  Somehow, someway, despite all odds, despite all all warnings from the Far Right &#8230; my marriage doesn&#39;t feel any way lessened, confused, unholy, or damaged by the President of the United States saying that he believes that gays should be able to marry.  <\/p>\n<p>And if anyone&#39;s does &#8212; I suggest, courteously, that there&#39;s something wrong with their understanding of marriage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102356721871221463140'>George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our Poster in support of marriage equality. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/diy.despair.com\" >diy.despair.com<\/a> to make your own! Let&#39;s get a bunch of them out there with different slogans. <\/p>\n<p>Suggestions include; &quot;You can&#39;t make a straight marriage any straighter by denying civil rights to your gay neighbor&quot;. Or &quot;It&#39;s a civil right, not a plumbing exercise&quot;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-sGm3z7oY3dM\/T6spGcX4hBI\/AAAAAAAAI5U\/vonV8v7BgJ0\/82872794.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-sGm3z7oY3dM\/T6spGcX4hBI\/AAAAAAAAI5U\/vonV8v7BgJ0\/82872794.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/TxKKsgEDVyg' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granted, I can&#39;t read that word on its own without thinking of Peter Cook in The Princess Bride &#8230; that said &#8230; I love my wife. Somehow, someway, despite all odds, despite all all warnings from the Far Right &#8230; my marriage doesn&#39;t feel any way lessened, confused, unholy, or damaged by the President of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/09\/marriage-2.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marriage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,14,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-love-and-marriage","category-marriage-equality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43418,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/marriage-equality-comes-another-big-step-closer-in-colorado.html","url_meta":{"origin":27846,"position":0},"title":"Marriage equality comes another big step closer in Colorado","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-Jul-14 8:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ironically, \"civil unions,\" intended to get around Colorado's constitutional ban on gay marriage, were cited as evidence of unequal protection of the law in the ruling. The judge immediately stayed the decision, as the whole issue wends its way through federal courts and up to SCOTUS.(h\/t +Scott M. Baron)\ufeff Colorado's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51633,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/28\/another-positive-christian-response-to-the-marriage-equality-ruling.html","url_meta":{"origin":27846,"position":1},"title":"Another positive Christian response to the marriage equality ruling","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 28-Jun-15 10:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"Drawing the distinction between civil rights and personal religious beliefs. One of the more disquieting aspects of the discussion around marriage equality has been people (on both sides) framing it as \"gays\" vs \"Christians\". Quite a few gay people are Christian. Quite a few Christians support marriage equality. While it's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26653,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/well-done-maryland.html","url_meta":{"origin":27846,"position":2},"title":"Well done, Maryland","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 24-Feb-12 6:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"Congratulations on passing a marriage equality bill through your legislature. #ddtbReshared post from +Zachary CookWow -- more fantastic news. Looks like Maryland is about to become another state with equality, two states in less than two weeks. This is the best quote from the story -- one that many Republicans\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14417,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/02\/marriage-equality-in-sweden-neither-fire-nor-brimstone-sighted.html","url_meta":{"origin":27846,"position":3},"title":"Marriage Equality in Sweden &#8212; neither fire nor brimstone sighted","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Apr-09 11:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Nor earthquakes, pillars of fire, hails of frogs, nor any of the other dire warnings of what happens when God's Will is Thwarted. 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