{"id":12886,"date":"2012-08-12T14:40:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T18:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=12886"},"modified":"2012-08-12T14:41:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T18:41:56","slug":"so-you-still-think-homosexuality-is-sinful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/08\/so-you-still-think-homosexuality-is-sinful\/","title":{"rendered":"So you still think homosexuality is sinful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/badcatholic\/2012\/08\/so-you-still-think-homosexuality-is-sinful.html#disqus_thread\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Catholic posts a graphic<\/a> &#8220;So you still think homosexuality is sinful&#8221; that is making the Facebook rounds. \u00a0Marc Barnes says it makes him laugh and I totally agree since it is quite unintentionally funny.<\/p>\n<p>I think I got my recommended daily allowance of condescension \u00a0for the next year with the path for &#8220;No&#8221; and the next decade with the path for &#8220;Yes.&#8221; \u00a0I applaud Bad Catholic \u00a0for looking past the total ridiculousness of it and answering it. \u00a0Though he missed one point with the basic premise of the question in that it is not same-sex attraction itself that is sinful, but homosexual acts. That the creators of this graphic made no such distinction is no surprise since distinction-making abilities were not exactly demonstrated in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>On another level I have to wonder just exactly what the point of such a graphic as an apologetic effort for same-sex marriage? \u00a0This is only the type of graphic where somebody who supports same-sex marriage can pat themselves on the back for being so enlightened and it in no way engages, but just insults opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Catholic posts a graphic &#8220;So you still think homosexuality is sinful&#8221; that is making the Facebook rounds. \u00a0Marc Barnes says it makes him laugh and I totally agree since&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12888,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886\/revisions\/12888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}