{"id":10027,"date":"2015-09-24T23:02:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T03:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10027"},"modified":"2015-09-24T23:02:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T03:02:17","slug":"slate-interviews-ron-belgau-aka-that-gay-dude-at-the-world-meeting-of-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/09\/slate-interviews-ron-belgau-aka-that-gay-dude-at-the-world-meeting-of-families.html","title":{"rendered":"Slate Interviews Ron Belgau aka That Gay Dude at the World Meeting of Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>(that <em>one<\/em>.) Last section was the most powerful for me, but here\u2019s an earlier bit:<\/p>\n<div class=\"text text-14 parbase section\">\n<blockquote><p>My main goal is to reach out and encourage people who feel trapped because they believe what the church teaches about sex but feel that this leaves them no way to have a meaningful life. That\u2019s who I\u2019m talking to most of the time and trying to find ways to help people who agree with church teachings to live out their convictions and be welcomed and supported by other Christians as they do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/outward\/2015\/09\/23\/ron_belgau_the_gay_celibate_catholic_presenting_at_a_vatican_sanctioned.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(that one.) Last section was the most powerful for me, but here\u2019s an earlier bit: My main goal is to reach out and encourage people who feel trapped because they believe what the church teaches about sex but feel that this leaves them no way to have a meaningful life. That\u2019s who I\u2019m talking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[91,1264,30,372],"class_list":["post-10027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-catholic-whatnot","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-fathers","tag-gay-catholic-whatnot","tag-mackerel-snapping-2","tag-ron-belgau"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Slate Interviews Ron Belgau aka That Gay Dude at the World Meeting of Families<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"(that one.) 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