{"id":1932,"date":"2013-04-13T00:57:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T05:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2013-04-13T00:57:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T05:57:17","slug":"just-dont-call-it-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1932","title":{"rendered":"JUST DON&#8217;T CALL IT MARRIAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attempts to legalize any kind of gay union involve two things:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Forcing a Fantasy<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Fear of the Facts<\/p>\n<p>Joining two people of the same sex and calling it marriage doesn&#8217;t work&#8212;it won&#8217;t work&#8212;it can&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Gay union doesn&#8217;t do what marriage does.<\/p>\n<p>Gay union does bad things that marriage does not do.<\/p>\n<p>When marriage and family fail, bad things happen.<\/p>\n<p>When anything replaces marriage and family, worse things happen.<\/p>\n<p>In the vacuum without complete marriage and complete family, everyone suffers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attempts to legalize any kind of gay union involve two things: &#8212;Forcing a Fantasy &#8212;Fear of the Facts Joining two people of the same sex and calling it marriage doesn&#8217;t work&#8212;it won&#8217;t work&#8212;it can&#8217;t work. Gay union doesn&#8217;t do what marriage does. Gay union does bad things that marriage does not do. When marriage and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-family","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}