{"id":189,"date":"2004-03-03T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=189"},"modified":"2004-03-03T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-03T17:46:00","slug":"this-fills-me-with-glee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"This fills me with glee&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drizzle.com\/~slmndr\/salamandir\/pubs\/irishtimes\/opt3.htm\">article<\/a> in the Irish Times about the long history of same-sex marriage in the church.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These ceremonies had all the contemporary symbols of a marriage: a community gathered in church, a blessing of the couple before the    altar, their right hands joined as at heterosexual marriages, the participation of a priest, the taking of the Eucharist, a wedding banquet afterwards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ooh, the irony.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\">Winds of Change<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Update: As the discerning will be able to tell from the URL to the article, it&#8217;s a mirror on somebody&#8217;s personal page.  However, when I searched the Irish Times website I found what appeared to be the same article, although I couldn&#8217;t read it all because it required a subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Update #2: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donaldsensing.com\">Donald Sensing<\/a> links to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/ftissues\/ft9411\/articles\/darling.html\">rebuttal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in the Irish Times about the long history of same-sex marriage in the church. These ceremonies had all the contemporary symbols of a marriage: a community gathered in church, a blessing of the couple before the altar, their right hands joined as at heterosexual marriages, the participation of a priest, the taking of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This fills me with glee&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}