{"id":8413,"date":"2014-06-04T17:15:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T21:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8413"},"modified":"2014-06-04T17:15:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T21:15:11","slug":"10-misconceptions-about-celibate-partnerships-a-queer-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/06\/10-misconceptions-about-celibate-partnerships-a-queer-calling.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;10 Misconceptions About Celibate Partnerships&#8221;: A Queer Calling"},"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><blockquote><p>Even as we thought about naming our blog before we began writing, we knew there would always be people who misunderstand our way of life. There are many <a title=\"7 Misconceptions about Celibacy\" href=\"http:\/\/aqueercalling.com\/2014\/01\/27\/7-misconceptions-about-celibacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">misconceptions about celibacy in general<\/a>, and it\u2019s understandable that there are even more about celibate partnerships like ours. Seeing as we already spent some time clarifying <a title=\"Discerning Our Vocation as a Community of Two\" href=\"http:\/\/aqueercalling.com\/2014\/05\/30\/discerning-our-vocation-as-a-community-of-two\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">the nature of our relationship<\/a>\u00a0last week, we thought that it might be a good time to expound upon some misconceptions we\u2019ve encountered about celibate partnerships since beginning our writing project together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aqueercalling.com\/2014\/06\/03\/10-misconceptions-about-celibate-partnerships\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as we thought about naming our blog before we began writing, we knew there would always be people who misunderstand our way of life. There are many misconceptions about celibacy in general, and it\u2019s understandable that there are even more about celibate partnerships like ours. 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