{"id":1917,"date":"2012-02-16T13:01:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T18:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2012-12-04T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T19:44:16","slug":"marriage-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/02\/marriage-qa.html","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Q&#038;A"},"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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Question Box\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wisefaq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/anonymousquestionsbox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"269\"><\/p>\n<p>Now that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/02\/debating-homosexuality-index-post.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">gay marriage debate with Matt<\/a> has come to an end, I\u2019d like to give you commenters a chance to ask me any questions about my position on marriage and its ties to tradition and the State. \u00a0Basically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2011\/10\/bisexuality-qa.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">the same thing we did after the post on bisexuality<\/a>. \u00a0I can\u2019t promise I\u2019ll get to all of them, but I can guarantee I\u2019m not going to be able to pick all of the questions addressed to me (as opposed to other commenters or hypothetical, possibly-made-of-straw atheists) out of the growing comment threads.<\/p>\n<p>So here are the rules:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Only questions you want <em>me<\/em> to answer should be posted as comments to this entry<\/strong>. \u00a0It\u2019s fine to post non-questions or questions for commenters as <em>replies<\/em> to questions, but they can\u2019t be original posts. \u00a0This will make it a lot easier for me to find the things you actually want me to address.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions should be primarily related to marriage<em>. <\/em><\/strong>Yes, \u201cWhy do you think some things are better than others?\u201d\u00a0<em>technically<\/em> has a bearing on marriage, but c\u2019mon. \u00a0This is a look-at-the-<em>results<\/em>-of-my-metaphysics prompt.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the gay marriage debate with Matt has come to an end, I\u2019d like to give you commenters a chance to ask me any questions about my position on marriage and its ties to tradition and the State. \u00a0Basically the same thing we did after the post on bisexuality. \u00a0I can\u2019t promise I\u2019ll get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,196],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping","category-marriage-2","tag-open-questions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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