{"id":3236,"date":"2008-12-11T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/quote-of-the-day-allow-gay-marriage-facebook-group\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T09:25:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-allow-gay-marriage-facebook-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/quote-of-the-day-allow-gay-marriage-facebook-group.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Allow Gay Marriage Facebook Group)"},"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><div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cWhy can a drunk man and a female exotic dancer get married in ten minutes in Las Vegas (and probably get it annulled within 24 hours), but two men who have been devoted to each other for several years can\u2019t?\u201d<\/span> <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">\u2014 From the description of the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=103725505590#\/group.php?gid=2208704424\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Allow Gay Marriage<\/a>\u201d group on Facebook<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8128050634916525110?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy can a drunk man and a female exotic dancer get married in ten minutes in Las Vegas (and probably get it annulled within 24 hours), but two men who have been devoted to each other for several years can\u2019t?\u201d \u2014 From the description of the \u201cAllow Gay Marriage\u201d group on Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quote of the Day (Allow Gay Marriage Facebook Group)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Why can a drunk man and a female exotic dancer get married in ten minutes in Las Vegas (and probably get it annulled within 24 hours), but two men who\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/quote-of-the-day-allow-gay-marriage-facebook-group.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quote of the Day (Allow Gay Marriage Facebook Group)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;Why can a drunk man and a female exotic dancer get married in ten minutes in Las Vegas (and probably get it annulled within 24 hours), but two men who\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/quote-of-the-day-allow-gay-marriage-facebook-group.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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