{"id":51289,"date":"2015-05-29T16:12:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T16:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/why-gay-marriage-is-doomed-in-the-united-states.html"},"modified":"2015-05-29T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T16:12:39","slug":"why-gay-marriage-is-doomed-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/why-gay-marriage-is-doomed-in-the-united-states.html","title":{"rendered":"Why gay marriage is doomed in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because it&#39;s being embraced in Europe. And everyone knows that if the <i>Europeans<\/i> are doing it, it would be Un-American to suggest <i>we<\/i> do it, too.<\/p>\n<p>Any day now I expect to see bumper stickers saying &quot;The Metric System: Gateway to Sodomy&quot;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/wp\/2015\/05\/29\/a-gay-marriage-arms-race-is-happening-right-now-in-europe'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Nlk_gqjU4IoqqMfYX36yWfsROWMZgZEjCmmuS0t3yOk7xJEOuW8kDCUPemasMjfO-t6LnCS8TvEajg-PK9cBXIeFeGK1YwzAAygOIAnpHV02ffwdaq3p_0IDg0N_=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/wp\/2015\/05\/29\/a-gay-marriage-arms-race-is-happening-right-now-in-europe'>A gay-marriage arms race is happening right now in Europe<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nNo silly contortions over whether to attend a same-sex wedding. Europe&rsquo;s leaders are way past that.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/7J8Y3AkmrAS'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it&#39;s being embraced in Europe. And everyone knows that if the Europeans are doing it, it would be Un-American to suggest we do it, too. Any day now I expect to see bumper stickers saying &quot;The Metric System: Gateway to Sodomy&quot;. A gay-marriage arms race is happening right now in Europe No silly contortions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/why-gay-marriage-is-doomed-in-the-united-states.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why gay marriage is doomed in the United States&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51289","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":5570,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/18\/more_of_that_ga.html","url_meta":{"origin":51289,"position":0},"title":"More of that gay marriage stuff","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Feb-04 9:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Two articles from Julia: The first is from a conservative commentator who's even more dedicated to marriage as a moral imperative than I am -- and thus is adament that...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;LGBTQ &amp;c&quot;","block_context":{"text":"LGBTQ &amp;c","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gay-stuff"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51628,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/27\/a-christian-response-to-gay-marriage.html","url_meta":{"origin":51289,"position":1},"title":"A Christian response to gay marriage","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 27-Jun-15 3:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Something you can share with friends or family (or, heck, strangers) who think that Christians are required to condemn marriage equality. 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