{"id":58629,"date":"2015-10-04T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=58629"},"modified":"2015-10-04T01:38:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T08:38:08","slug":"gay-marriage-in-christian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/04\/gay-marriage-in-christian-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Marriage in Christian History?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the SCOTUS decision concerning same-sex marriage, I&#8217;ve seen lots of people on Facebook making the assertion that the Church used to perform same-sex weddings in antiquity. In defense of this quite provocative\u00a0assertion, typically a single authority is cited,\u00a0the Professor of Medieval History at Yale University, John Boswell.<\/p>\n<p>I was planning on writing a rebuttal to this\u00a0assertion, but after doing a little bit of googling, I came across this article by <a href=\"http:\/\/trs.cua.edu\/faculty\/Young\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Robin Darling Young<\/a> who reviews Boswell&#8217;s book and does a tremendous job on demonstrating the considerable bias required to reimagine Church history in an attempt to support such an outlandish hypothesis:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/1994\/11\/gay-marriage-reimagining-church-history\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-58630 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-12-at-10.43.52-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-08-12 at 10.43.52 AM\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-12-at-10.43.52-AM.png 800w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-12-at-10.43.52-AM-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-12-at-10.43.52-AM-600x389.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the SCOTUS decision concerning same-sex marriage, I&#8217;ve seen lots of people on Facebook making the assertion that the Church used to perform same-sex weddings in antiquity. In defense of this quite provocative\u00a0assertion, typically a single authority is cited,\u00a0the Professor of Medieval History at Yale University, John Boswell. I was planning on writing a rebuttal to this\u00a0assertion,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1566,3290,2815,3287,3289,3206,3288],"class_list":["post-58629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-church-history","tag-first-things","tag-gay-marriage","tag-john-boswell","tag-robin-darling-young","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-same-sexunions-in-premodern-europe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59198,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58629\/revisions\/59198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}