{"id":93284,"date":"2015-07-06T00:07:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=93284"},"modified":"2015-07-05T21:12:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T04:12:45","slug":"there-has-been-much-discussion-about-civil-disobedience-since-obergefell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/07\/there-has-been-much-discussion-about-civil-disobedience-since-obergefell.html","title":{"rendered":"There has been much discussion about civil disobedience since Obergefell"},"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>Thing is, there\u2019s nothing much to civilly disobey about yet when it comes to gay \u201cmarriage\u201d. But that doesn\u2019t mean that Caesar is not commanding the Church to disobey God in very crucial ways that are central to her mission. For instance:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xpt1\/v\/t1.0-9\/11694915_10153055846773366_8578186482994782008_n.jpg?oh=933b81185a614f9b9869e11786eba93e&amp;oe=565B9790\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>We Christians should go right on feeding the homeless anyway as though such laws do not exist. \u00a0For indeed, they don\u2019t. \u00a0An unjust law is no law at all. \u00a0We must obey God rather than men.<\/p>\n<p>Disobeying these tyrannical ordinances will be good practice should the time come we have others to disobey.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thing is, there\u2019s nothing much to civilly disobey about yet when it comes to gay \u201cmarriage\u201d. 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