{"id":350,"date":"2004-03-04T23:16:35","date_gmt":"2004-03-05T06:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=350"},"modified":"2008-03-30T23:17:57","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T06:17:57","slug":"making-marriage-religious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/03\/04\/making-marriage-religious\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Marriage Religious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary-Ann Greanier, in her tongue-in-cheek article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonphoenix.com\/boston\/news_features\/this_just_in\/documents\/03356537.asp\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Biblical                   Sense: Making Marriage Religious&#8221;<\/a>, argues to make                   any marriage law in strict accordance with the Bible, so there&#8217;s                   no sense of hypocracy, including:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A marriage shall be considered valid only                 if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is found not to be a virgin, &#8220;they                 shall take her to the door of her father\u2019s house and her                 fellow citizens shall stone her to death&#8221; (Deut. 22:13-21).                 (Here, Governor Romney\u2019s resurrection of the death penalty                 will come in handy.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/03\/04\/making-marriage-religious\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary-Ann Greanier, in her tongue-in-cheek article &#8220;Biblical Sense: Making Marriage Religious&#8221;, argues to make any marriage law in strict accordance with the Bible, so there&#8217;s no sense of hypocracy, including: &#8220;A marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is found not to be a virgin, &#8220;they shall &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/03\/04\/making-marriage-religious\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making Marriage Religious?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/03\/04\/making-marriage-religious\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}