{"id":29927,"date":"2015-04-30T08:43:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T12:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=29927"},"modified":"2015-04-30T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T12:43:24","slug":"diverse-religious-views-on-same-gender-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/04\/diverse-religious-views-on-same-gender-marriage.html","title":{"rendered":"Diverse Religious Views on Same-Gender Marriage"},"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>The infographic below from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/04\/27\/same-sex-marriage-religious-groups_n_7153662.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Huffington Post<\/em><\/a> is an improvement over some of the others I\u2019ve seen (one of which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/2015\/03\/be-next-american-baptists.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">I blogged about last month<\/a>), but still fails to break down religions other than Christianity into subcategories, thus painting those traditions with too broad a brush.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-29928\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/04\/GayMarriageReligion1-422x1024.png\" alt=\"GayMarriageReligion1\" width=\"422\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n<p>The data comes from the recent survey undertaken by the <a href=\"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/2015\/04\/attitudes-on-same-sex-marriage-by-religious-affiliation-and-denominational-family\/#.VT7v_dK6foz\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Public Religion Research Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The infographic below from the Huffington Post is an improvement over some of the others I\u2019ve seen (one of which I blogged about last month), but still fails to break down religions other than Christianity into subcategories, thus painting those traditions with too broad a brush. 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