{"id":29042,"date":"2012-08-07T06:43:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T12:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/nom-defends-biblical-marriage-including-the-not-so-nice-bits.html"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:29:24","slug":"nom-defends-biblical-marriage-including-the-not-so-nice-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/nom-defends-biblical-marriage-including-the-not-so-nice-bits.html","title":{"rendered":"NOM Defends Biblical Marriage &#8212; including the not-so-nice bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, faced with a description of marriage traditions from the Old Testament that would strike most modern people as &#8230; well, appalling, if adhered to today, NOM&#39;s answer is, &quot;Yes, well, um, but notice they all involve <i>men and women!&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Uh &#8230; yeah. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F08%2FBiblical-Marriage-Infographic-300x215.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/lgbt\/2012\/08\/06\/646781\/nom-defends-biblical-marriage-including-slavery-concubines-polygamy-and-rape\/'>NOM Defends Biblical Marriage, Including Slavery, Concubines, Polygamy, And Rape<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDefenders of Chick-fil-A\u2019s anti-equality positions have argued that the company simply believes in the \u201cbiblical definition of marriage.\u201d An infographic has been circulating the web demonstrating the &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/RKtW6XNEVza' target='_new'>6<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/RKtW6XNEVza' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, faced with a description of marriage traditions from the Old Testament that would strike most modern people as &#8230; well, appalling, if adhered to today, NOM&#39;s answer is, &quot;Yes, well, um, but notice they all involve men and women!&quot; Uh &#8230; yeah. \u00a0 Embedded Link NOM Defends Biblical Marriage, Including Slavery, Concubines, Polygamy, And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/nom-defends-biblical-marriage-including-the-not-so-nice-bits.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NOM Defends Biblical Marriage &#8212; including the not-so-nice bits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28831,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/08\/church-and-some-state-bits-from-2012-08-07.html","url_meta":{"origin":29042,"position":0},"title":"Church (and some State) bits from 2012-08-07","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Aug-12 8:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"The zanies are out in force: NOM Defends Biblical Marriage -- including the not-so-nice bits\u00a0- Because even if we're talking about virgin rape victims being required to marry their rapists, at least it's all about women marrying men! 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