{"id":480,"date":"2004-03-01T13:11:11","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T17:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=480"},"modified":"2009-01-20T12:53:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T16:53:13","slug":"marriage-according-to-biblical-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/03\/marriage-according-to-biblical-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage According to Biblical Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/mcdermott\/sp040225c.shtml\">February 25 statement by Congressman Jim McDermott <\/a>highlights some of the potential problems of arguing that marriage should be (as the Presidential prayer team has suggested) based on &#8220;biblical principles.&#8221;  Such as:<\/p>\n<p><i>A marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is not a virgin, she shall be executed.<\/i>  <\/p>\n<p>Ouch!  (See also <a href=\"http:\/\/mowabb.com\/ai\/archives\/2004_02_28.html#001895\">this blog <\/a>providing further textual support for the passages the Congressman didn&#8217;t give verses for).  (Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.qiken.org\/archives\/000439.html\">Heidi Bond<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A February 25 statement by Congressman Jim McDermott highlights some of the potential problems of arguing that marriage should be (as the Presidential prayer team has suggested) based on &#8220;biblical principles.&#8221; Such as: A marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is not a virgin, she shall be executed. Ouch! (See also this blog providing further textual support for the passages the Congressman didn&#8217;t give verses for). (Link via Heidi Bond).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6735,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/6735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}