![\"TNJ-42.fw\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/665\/2015\/06\/TNJ-42.fw_.png\")
<\/a>I received an email today from someone who asked me why I hadn\u2019t spoken about the SCOTUS ruling on Marriage Equity. My reply was simple; I never shout-out my point of view in the middle of a celebration. But, now that the party is slowing down a bit I will share with you my point of view:<\/p>\nLove Wins<\/span><\/h1>\nIt really is that simple, Love Wins.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not concerned which side of the debate you are on; as long as you remember that Love Wins. You see, being mean, argumentative, insulting, demanding simply tells the world your faith is mean, argumentative, insulting, and demanding \u2013 and it should not be so. Your faith should be filled with grace, love, hope and mercy. Each time a decision is made where certain groups of people disagree think it\u2019s the end of the world. This was the same when slavery ended, when women received the right to vote, and segregation ended, and yet the world did not end. So, wherever you stand on the issue, let kinder hearts speak, let love speak, let grace speak, let mercy speak.<\/p>\n
As for me? I am going to get back to the celebration [the bar is still open] \u2013 there is a great amount to celebrate because:<\/p>\n
Love Wins<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I received an email today from someone who asked me why I hadn\u2019t spoken about the SCOTUS ruling on Marriage Equity. My reply was simple; I never shout-out my point of view in the middle of a celebration. But, now that the party is slowing down a bit I will share with you my point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2697,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8,9,11,12,14,20],"tags":[29,50,56,59,61],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church","category-dance","category-good","category-grace","category-love","category-missional","category-open","category-theology","tag-care","tag-grace","tag-jesus","tag-love","tag-mercy"],"yoast_head":"\n
Unity in Love<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I received an email today from someone who asked me why I hadn\u2019t spoken about the SCOTUS ruling on Marriage Equity. My reply was simple; I never shout-out\" \/>\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\/thenakedjesus\/2015\/06\/unity-in-love\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unity in Love\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I received an email today from someone who asked me why I hadn\u2019t spoken about the SCOTUS ruling on Marriage Equity. My reply was simple; I never shout-out\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2015\/06\/unity-in-love\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Naked Jesus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-06-27T04:53:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John O'Keefe\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John O'Keefe\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2015\/06\/unity-in-love\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2015\/06\/unity-in-love\/\",\"name\":\"Unity in Love\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-06-27T04:53:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-06-27T04:53:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#\/schema\/person\/470b7ef2d4c1360a8e82d7365ed930c3\"},\"description\":\"I received an email today from someone who asked me why I hadn\u2019t spoken about the SCOTUS ruling on Marriage Equity. My reply was simple; I never shout-out\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2015\/06\/unity-in-love\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2015\/06\/unity-in-love\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2015\/06\/unity-in-love\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Unity in Love\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/\",\"name\":\"The Naked Jesus\",\"description\":\"A Journey Out of Christianity and Into Christ\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#\/schema\/person\/470b7ef2d4c1360a8e82d7365ed930c3\",\"name\":\"John O'Keefe\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ce2947b9bd8574adba50aa6a102b862c?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ce2947b9bd8574adba50aa6a102b862c?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"John O'Keefe\"},\"description\":\"John O'Keefe's new book is DISRUPT: Everything Changes will make you think differently about a great deal of what the church teaches. He is also the author of The Naked Jesus; A Journey Out of Christianity and Into Christ, and three other books. John is the Founding\/Lead Pastor at PIVOT [pivotlnk.com]. He holds an Mdiv from Drew University in Madison New Jersey and a DMin in Future Studies from George Fox University, Portland Seminary, in Washington. You can follow John on Facebook @ The Naked Jesus.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/author\/ginkworld\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Unity in Love","description":"I received an email today from someone who asked me why I hadn\u2019t spoken about the SCOTUS ruling on Marriage Equity. My reply was simple; I never shout-out","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2015\/06\/unity-in-love\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Unity in Love","og_description":"I received an email today from someone who asked me why I hadn\u2019t spoken about the SCOTUS ruling on Marriage Equity. My reply was simple; I never shout-out","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2015\/06\/unity-in-love\/","og_site_name":"The Naked Jesus","article_published_time":"2015-06-27T04:53:32+00:00","author":"John O'Keefe","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"John O'Keefe","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2015\/06\/unity-in-love\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2015\/06\/unity-in-love\/","name":"Unity in Love","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-06-27T04:53:32+00:00","dateModified":"2015-06-27T04:53:32+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#\/schema\/person\/470b7ef2d4c1360a8e82d7365ed930c3"},"description":"I received an email today from someone who asked me why I hadn\u2019t spoken about the SCOTUS ruling on Marriage Equity. My reply was simple; I never shout-out","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2015\/06\/unity-in-love\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2015\/06\/unity-in-love\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2015\/06\/unity-in-love\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Unity in Love"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/","name":"The Naked Jesus","description":"A Journey Out of Christianity and Into Christ","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#\/schema\/person\/470b7ef2d4c1360a8e82d7365ed930c3","name":"John O'Keefe","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ce2947b9bd8574adba50aa6a102b862c?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ce2947b9bd8574adba50aa6a102b862c?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"John O'Keefe"},"description":"John O'Keefe's new book is DISRUPT: Everything Changes will make you think differently about a great deal of what the church teaches. He is also the author of The Naked Jesus; A Journey Out of Christianity and Into Christ, and three other books. John is the Founding\/Lead Pastor at PIVOT [pivotlnk.com]. He holds an Mdiv from Drew University in Madison New Jersey and a DMin in Future Studies from George Fox University, Portland Seminary, in Washington. You can follow John on Facebook @ The Naked Jesus.","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/author\/ginkworld\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I received an email today from someone who asked me why I hadn\u2019t spoken about the SCOTUS ruling on Marriage Equity. My reply was simple; I never shout-out my point of view in the middle of a celebration. But, now that the party is slowing down a bit I will share with you my point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2697,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8,9,11,12,14,20],"tags":[29,50,56,59,61],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church","category-dance","category-good","category-grace","category-love","category-missional","category-open","category-theology","tag-care","tag-grace","tag-jesus","tag-love","tag-mercy"],"yoast_head":"\n