{"id":25,"date":"2008-11-21T09:28:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T09:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2008\/11\/same-sex-marriage-blogalogue-a.html"},"modified":"2008-11-21T09:28:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T09:28:32","slug":"same-sex-marriage-blogalogue-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2008\/11\/same-sex-marriage-blogalogue-a.html","title":{"rendered":"A Lighter Moment: Same Sex Marriage Blogalogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"blogalogue_bar.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/198\/import\/blogalogue_bar.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" height=\"30\" width=\"422\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I met <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/crunchycon\">Rod<\/a> yesterday, and we had a great time sitting on his porch, drinking coffee.&nbsp; I can say, with all candor, that I thoroughly enjoyed his company and now consider him a friend.&nbsp; I&#8217;m working on a post today which I hope to post later today.&nbsp; In the meantime, let me encourage you to read <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/crunchycon\/2008\/11\/tony-jones-and-rod-dreher-disc.html\">Rod&#8217;s initial post<\/a> in our blogalogue and also <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/11\/that-old-house.html\">Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s &#8220;stump speech&#8221; on SSM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the always hilarious <a href=\"http:\/\/graphjam.com\/\">GraphJam<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/graphjam.com\/2008\/11\/19\/song-chart-memes-consequences-of-gay-marriage\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10971\" src=\"https:\/\/graphjam.wordpress.com\/sites\/198\/2008\/11\/gaymarriage.gif\" alt=\"song chart memes\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>more <a href=\"http:\/\/graphjam.com\/\">music charts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Rod yesterday, and we had a great time sitting on his porch, drinking coffee.&nbsp; I can say, with all candor, that I thoroughly enjoyed his company and now consider him a friend.&nbsp; I&#8217;m working on a post today which I hope to post later today.&nbsp; In the meantime, let me encourage you to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage-blogalogue"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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