{"id":290,"date":"2010-11-28T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2010\/11\/marriage-contract-and-restraint\/"},"modified":"2012-09-04T16:19:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T20:19:34","slug":"marriage-contract-and-restraint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2010\/11\/marriage-contract-and-restraint.html","title":{"rendered":"Marriage, Contract, and Restraint"},"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 class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toothpastefordinner.com\/archives\/2008\/Sep\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_b7Eh98KJ_qI\/TPIFPZWgyJI\/AAAAAAAABJo\/qNmuryYJ1OY\/s400\/atheist+wedding.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"297\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Two days ago, I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unequally-yoked.com\/2010\/11\/coming-up-this-week.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">casting about for a new topic<\/a> for linked posts, and, now, I not only have one, I\u2019m trying to figure out how to schedule myself to tackle it as quickly as possible, without disrupting the conclusion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unequally-yoked.com\/2010\/10\/eight-questions-for-atheists.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Egnor\u2019s Eight Questions<\/a>. \u00a0So here\u2019s what you have to look forward to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reasons why, when\/if I get married, I would be strongly inclined to seek a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Covenant_marriage\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">covenant marriage<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I got into an argument on facebook about covenant marriage and marriage in general with a number of my friends, including Stephen of <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenmarsh.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Last Delta-T<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0He\u2019s got <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenmarsh.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/mawage-is-wot-bwings-us-togeder-tooday.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a post up<\/a> in response to some of my comments on the facebook thread, and I\u2019ll be responding sometime this week.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, read through <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenmarsh.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/mawage-is-wot-bwings-us-togeder-tooday.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">his post<\/a>, get a quick outline of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Covenant_marriage\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">covenant marriage on Wikipedia<\/a>, and, if you\u2019re so inclined, flip back to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unequally-yoked.com\/2010\/08\/gay-marriage-index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">series on gay marriage<\/a> to get a general picture of my thoughts on marriage.<\/p>\n<p>See you Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4256452356987023523-2074745573715448343?l=www.unequally-yoked.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days ago, I was casting about for a new topic for linked posts, and, now, I not only have one, I\u2019m trying to figure out how to schedule myself to tackle it as quickly as possible, without disrupting the conclusion of Egnor\u2019s Eight Questions. \u00a0So here\u2019s what you have to look forward to: Reasons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-2","tag-covenant-marriage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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