{"id":40,"date":"2008-11-28T10:20:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T10:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2008\/11\/other-voices-on-same-sex-marri.html"},"modified":"2008-11-28T10:20:57","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T10:20:57","slug":"other-voices-on-same-sex-marri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2008\/11\/other-voices-on-same-sex-marri.html","title":{"rendered":"Other Voices on Same Sex Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t be blogging about same sex marriage this weekend, and I don&#8217;t know if Rod will nor not.&nbsp; But, in the meantime, I thought I&#8217;d point you to a couple other spots where I&#8217;ve found some good thoughts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/eugenecho.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/24\/church-gay-marriage-and-prop-8\/\">Eugene Cho has a great discussion going about Prop 8 and the billboard purchased by my friends at MissionGathering church in San Diego.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vanguardchurch.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/homosexuality-yes-no-maybe.html\">Bob Robinson disagrees with me about the issue but agrees that a robust and civil conversation is needed, especially among evangelicals, and <i>especially<\/i> among evangelicals who work with college students.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/11\/blue-parakeet-passages-in-the.html\">Scot McKnight writes encourages &#8220;blue parakeeting&#8221; the Bible, as opposed to the naive and dishonest phrase, &#8220;God says it. 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That settles it.&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp; This is something I&#8217;ll come back to when Rod and I get into the Bible passages on the subject.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaychristian.net\/greatdebate.php\">There&#8217;s a good, respectful debate at the Gay Christian Network<\/a>.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>And <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/11\/milk.html#more\">Andrew Sullivan reflects on the Harvey Milk biopic, which I hope to see next week<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t be blogging about same sex marriage this weekend, and I don&#8217;t know if Rod will nor not.&nbsp; But, in the meantime, I thought I&#8217;d point you to a couple other spots where I&#8217;ve found some good thoughts: Eugene Cho has a great discussion going about Prop 8 and the billboard purchased by my&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Other Voices on Same Sex Marriage - The New Christians<\/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\/tonyjones\/2008\/11\/other-voices-on-same-sex-marri.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Other Voices on Same Sex Marriage - The New Christians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I won&#8217;t be blogging about same sex marriage this weekend, and I don&#8217;t know if Rod will nor not.&nbsp; 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