{"id":42348,"date":"2014-06-01T00:34:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T06:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/01\/the-incredible-fragility-of-mawwiage.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:25:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:25:53","slug":"the-incredible-fragility-of-mawwiage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/01\/the-incredible-fragility-of-mawwiage.html","title":{"rendered":"The incredible fragility of Mawwiage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">I have been married now for 19 years. \u00a0To a lovely, wonderful, talented, charming woman.<\/p>\n<p>We have a child, a daughter 14 years of age. She is bright, beautiful, smart, and a joy.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, somehow, strangely, oddly, inexplicably, despite having a stable, productive, enjoyable marriage &#8230; <i>we know that there are gay people in the world.<\/i> Worse, we know that some of them claim to be &quot;married.&quot; \u00a0More incredibly, we&#39;ve actually had the &quot;honor&quot; of attending or even participating in such &quot;gay&quot; &quot;marriages.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t know what&#39;s wrong with Ms Bondi, but I don&#39;t think our gay friends have, even in the least, harmed the stability of <i>our<\/i> marriage. Perhaps she ought to examine her own issues before weighing in on the marriages of others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112413594156745461744'>Michael Coen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Florida&#39;s Attorney General, Pam Bondi, regurgitates the unoriginal and unfounded claim that recognizing same-sex marriages will harm traditional marriages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23Florida\">#Florida<\/a> \u00a0 <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23PamBondi\">#PamBondi<\/a> \u00a0 <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23GayMarriage\">#GayMarriage<\/a> \u00a0\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-7-1Xa6i5u6I\/U4o7Yv5XpJI\/AAAAAAAABwg\/8gEeQL1WWs0\/bondiSSMarriage.jpg?imgmax=1024' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Z48dAnc46c1' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been married now for 19 years. \u00a0To a lovely, wonderful, talented, charming woman. We have a child, a daughter 14 years of age. She is bright, beautiful, smart, and a joy. And yet, somehow, strangely, oddly, inexplicably, despite having a stable, productive, enjoyable marriage &#8230; we know that there are gay people in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/01\/the-incredible-fragility-of-mawwiage.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The incredible fragility of Mawwiage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,25,14,718],"tags":[619,621,620,586],"class_list":["post-42348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-gay-stuff","category-love-and-marriage","category-marriage-equality","tag-florida","tag-gaymarriage","tag-pambondi","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bondiSSMarriage.jpg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6839,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/21\/proof_of_harm.html","url_meta":{"origin":42348,"position":0},"title":"Proof of harm","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Dec-04 10:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"Gay marriage proponents have asked for proof that gay marriages will somehow harm straight marriages. 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