{"id":384,"date":"2011-03-15T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/beware-the-ides-of-march-and-gay-marriage.html"},"modified":"2011-03-15T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T11:26:00","slug":"beware-the-ides-of-march-and-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/beware-the-ides-of-march-and-gay-marriage.html","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Ides of March&#8230; and Gay Marriage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couldn&#8217;t resist a timely headline joke here &#8212; a Shakespearean nod to all the panicked Americans convinced that legalizing same-sex marriage represents DOOM, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/2010\/03\/beware-not-the-ides-of-march--focus-on-spring-inspiration.html\">as&nbsp;March 15 traditionally does<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some relevant recent headlines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/03\/12\/AR2011031202583.html?wprss=rss_religion\/wires\">Maryland gay marriage bill dies with no final vote <\/a>(Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2011\/03\/progress-in-wpost-gay-marriage-package\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+getreligion\/DmXm+(GetReligion)\">Progress in WPost gay-marriage package <\/a>(GetReligion)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/03\/13\/INEE1I5V19.DTL\">My gay son: The face of the church&#8217;s lack of respect <\/a>(San Francisco Chronicle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, to counter that atrocious <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/victory-for-hate-westboro-baptist-church-wins-supreme-court-case-pakistans-christian-minister-gunned.html\">Catholic News Agency&nbsp;article&nbsp;on Mexico&#8217;s first gay divorce <\/a>last month, here&#8217;s a reminder that our husband-wife teams, even&nbsp;religious ones,&nbsp;aren&#8217;t quite keeping marriage sacred, either: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2011-03-14-divorce-christians_N.htm?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)\">Christians question divorce rates of faithful <\/a>(USA Today)<\/p>\n<p>(Or, you could just read about &#8220;The Bachelor&#8221; finale:<a href=\"http:\/\/marquee.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/03\/15\/bachelor-brad-picks-a-mate-but-will-it-last\/\"> Brad Womack proposed to Emily Maynard<\/a>. I don&#8217;t watch this show, but\/because I know this much:&nbsp;after 14 seasons, not one of the engaged couples has actually gotten married!)<\/p>\n<p>Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couldn&#8217;t resist a timely headline joke here &#8212; a Shakespearean nod to all the panicked Americans convinced that legalizing same-sex marriage represents DOOM, as&nbsp;March 15 traditionally does. Some relevant recent headlines: Maryland gay marriage bill dies with no final vote (Washington Post) Progress in WPost gay-marriage package (GetReligion) My gay son: The face of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Beware the Ides of March... and Gay Marriage? - Belief Beat<\/title>\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.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/beware-the-ides-of-march-and-gay-marriage.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beware the Ides of March... and Gay Marriage? - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Couldn&#8217;t resist a timely headline joke here &#8212; a Shakespearean nod to all the panicked Americans convinced that legalizing same-sex marriage represents DOOM, as&nbsp;March 15 traditionally does. 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