{"id":7865,"date":"2014-07-28T13:53:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T18:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=7865"},"modified":"2014-07-28T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T18:53:33","slug":"should-we-not-have-done-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/7865","title":{"rendered":"Should We Not Have Done That&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A soldier in the war against the homosexual menace<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/another-ex-gay-leader-renounces-movement-religious-rights-anti-gay-tactics\"> has a road to Damascus moment<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As she sobbed over the breakup of her parents and family, an errant thought darted through my head: If we as a society didn&#8217;t condemn homosexuality, gay people wouldn&#8217;t feel pressured into marrying heterosexually, against their true attractions, and families wouldn&#8217;t be torn apart when the gay spouse could no longer continue the ruse. I had seen a number of gay Christians marry an opposite sex partner, only to leave when they couldn&#8217;t pretend any longer. It wasn&#8217;t fair to the spouse, the kids, or themselves. My doubts about the efficacy of change and the evangelical Christian stance against gay rights of any kind nagged at me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A soldier in the war against the homosexual menace has a road to Damascus moment&#8230; As she sobbed over the breakup of her parents and family, an errant thought darted through my head: If we as a society didn&#8217;t condemn homosexuality, gay people wouldn&#8217;t feel pressured into marrying heterosexually, against their true attractions, and families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[28,46,12],"class_list":["post-7865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-sexual-orientation","tag-the-kultar-kampf","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}