{"id":3474,"date":"2012-06-11T11:10:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T15:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2013-01-16T01:07:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T06:07:33","slug":"we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don%e2%80%99t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don%e2%80%99t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312.html","title":{"rendered":"“We know where great sex is; we don\u2019t know where great sex isn’t” [Blogathon 3\/12]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This post is number three of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. \u00a0I\u2019m responding to comments in the \u201cGo Ahead, Tell Me What\u2019s Wrong with Homosexuality<\/a>\u201d thread all day. \u00a0You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you\u2019re religious) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve done two posts of comments I disagreed with. \u00a0 Now here\u2019s one from Jerry<\/a> I quite liked.<\/p>\n

To paraphrase (butcher?) a common phrase: we know where great sex is; we don\u2019t know where great sex isn\u2019t. All marriages are imperfect expressions of the ideal marriage. Throughout history, mankind has made varying imperfect attempts at fulfilling this ideal marriage concept in the same way any triangle you draw on a piece of paper is an imperfect attempt at expressing the perfect concept of triagularness. Instead of seeing things as some kind of \u201cviolation\u201d of some kind of Catholic view or rule or law, I see the vast number of marriages as people\u2019s honest attempt at striving for a happy union in the best way they know how. No fault or problem with that at all. I just think that the fullness of the truth about marriage is held and taught by the Catholic Church precisely because I believe it is more than just a bunch of celibate men and therefore I try to live mine according to those principles (and try to be ready to explain them when asked!). If someone else wants to go it another way, that\u2019s entirely their choice and I don\u2019t mean to disparage anyone\u2019s honest attempts at reaching the ideal, even if I might personally think some of them are more or less likely to achieve depending on their approaches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In this case, pitching non-Catholics and non-Christians on celibate gay lives feels a little like pitching Gentiles on keeping kosher. \u00a0Or, at least, like the consequence of effecting a conversion, and not the thing you use to pitch people on your metaphysics and theology. \u00a0Seems like bad tactics for churches to make opposition to gay marriage the first<\/em> thing people think of when they they think of Christian marriage. \u00a0(Or even just when they hear the word \u2018Christian.\u2019<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is number three of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. \u00a0I\u2019m responding to comments in the \u201cGo Ahead, Tell Me What\u2019s Wrong with Homosexuality\u201d thread all day. \u00a0You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you\u2019re religious) here. \u00a0 I\u2019ve done two posts of comments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,196],"tags":[171,85,11],"class_list":["post-3474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debatetactics","category-marriage-2","tag-blogathon","tag-gay-marriage","tag-lgbt"],"yoast_head":"\n"We know where great sex is; we don\u2019t know where great sex isn't" [Blogathon 3\/12]<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This post is number three of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. \u00a0I'm responding to comments in the "Go Ahead, Tell Me What's Wrong with\" \/>\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\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don\u2019t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""We know where great sex is; we don\u2019t know where great sex isn't" [Blogathon 3\/12]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This post is number three of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. \u00a0I'm responding to comments in the "Go Ahead, Tell Me What's Wrong with\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don\u2019t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Unequally Yoked\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-06-11T15:10:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-01-16T06:07:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/files\/2012\/06\/blogathon1.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Leah Libresco\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Leah Libresco\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don%e2%80%99t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don%e2%80%99t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312.html\",\"name\":\"\\\"We know where great sex is; we don\u2019t know where great sex isn't\\\" [Blogathon 3\/12]\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-06-11T15:10:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-01-16T06:07:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/#\/schema\/person\/17ee17592b35b40040d5f5f7ea5ab464\"},\"description\":\"This post is number three of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. \u00a0I'm responding to comments in the \\\"Go Ahead, Tell Me What's Wrong with\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don%e2%80%99t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don%e2%80%99t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don%e2%80%99t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"“We know where great sex is; we don\u2019t know where great sex isn’t” [Blogathon 3\/12]\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/\",\"name\":\"Unequally Yoked\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/#\/schema\/person\/17ee17592b35b40040d5f5f7ea5ab464\",\"name\":\"Leah Libresco\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/20e1e6a3a94c4e7928687804a41d888d?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/20e1e6a3a94c4e7928687804a41d888d?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"caption\":\"Leah Libresco\"},\"description\":\"Leah is the author of Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. Her further writing can be found at leahlibresco.com.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/author\/leahlibresco\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\"We know where great sex is; we don\u2019t know where great sex isn't\" [Blogathon 3\/12]","description":"This post is number three of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. \u00a0I'm responding to comments in the \"Go Ahead, Tell Me What's Wrong with","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\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don\u2019t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\"We know where great sex is; we don\u2019t know where great sex isn't\" [Blogathon 3\/12]","og_description":"This post is number three of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. \u00a0I'm responding to comments in the \"Go Ahead, Tell Me What's Wrong with","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don\u2019t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312.html","og_site_name":"Unequally Yoked","article_published_time":"2012-06-11T15:10:47+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-01-16T06:07:33+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/files\/2012\/06\/blogathon1.png"}],"author":"Leah Libresco","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Leah Libresco","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don%e2%80%99t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312.html","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don%e2%80%99t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312.html","name":"\"We know where great sex is; we don\u2019t know where great sex isn't\" [Blogathon 3\/12]","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-06-11T15:10:47+00:00","dateModified":"2013-01-16T06:07:33+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/#\/schema\/person\/17ee17592b35b40040d5f5f7ea5ab464"},"description":"This post is number three of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. \u00a0I'm responding to comments in the \"Go Ahead, Tell Me What's Wrong with","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don%e2%80%99t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don%e2%80%99t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/we-know-where-great-sex-is-we-don%e2%80%99t-know-where-great-sex-isnt-blogathon-312.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"“We know where great sex is; we don\u2019t know where great sex isn’t” [Blogathon 3\/12]"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/","name":"Unequally Yoked","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/#\/schema\/person\/17ee17592b35b40040d5f5f7ea5ab464","name":"Leah Libresco","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/20e1e6a3a94c4e7928687804a41d888d?s=96&d=mm&r=r","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/20e1e6a3a94c4e7928687804a41d888d?s=96&d=mm&r=r","caption":"Leah Libresco"},"description":"Leah is the author of Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. Her further writing can be found at leahlibresco.com.","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/author\/leahlibresco"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}