{"id":10030,"date":"2015-08-19T13:23:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T20:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/lets-not-be-choosy-over-marriage\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T23:35:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T06:35:33","slug":"lets-not-be-choosy-over-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/lets-not-be-choosy-over-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s not be choosy over marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I totally agree with that piece, &#8220;Marriage, belief and change&#8221; (Ray Still, Our Corner column, Reporter, Aug. 14).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>No, I am not gay.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And yes, I am a Catholic and I believe in the teachings of my faith. And as Still puts it, the \u201cgreatest commandment\u201d of the Christian faith is to \u201clove our Lord and to love each other\u201d, and how we can\u2019t love God if we don\u2019t love our neighbor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Indeed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>True, there are passages in the Bible that say that marriage should only be between a man and a woman. But I don&#8217;t think the Bible should be read literally. Most passages in the Bible are proverbs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>No, I don&#8217;t profess to be an expert on the Bible.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>To quote Mr. Still once again: &#8220;Any couple that comes before God to be joined together in spirit, whether they be different or same-sex, are equal in every way, including God&#8217;s love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And, that reminds me of a scene in the Bible where when children saw Jesus, they all ran toward him, but Jesus&#8217; disciples stopped them from coming near him. But Jesus said to his disciples, &#8220;Let them come to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>God loves us all. He&#8217;s not choosy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Jesse Jose<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I totally agree with that piece, &#8220;Marriage, belief and change&#8221; (Paul Still, Our Corner column, Auburn Reporter, Aug. 14).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}