{"id":2340,"date":"2004-03-21T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/21\/marriage-by-the-book-part-2\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T07:39:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:39:19","slug":"marriage-by-the-book-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/21\/marriage-by-the-book-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage by the Book, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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It&#8217;s a collection of proposed laws for governing marriage, based on Biblical quotations (in response to the many people basing their anti-gay-marriage stance on select Biblical verses, instead of just admitting to homophobia and bigotry).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I know of this piece of writing, working backwards.<\/p>\n<p>Today &#8212; March 21st, 2004 &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/03\/21\/proposed_biblebased_.html\" title=\"Proposed Bible-based marriage laws\">Boing Boing posted about it<\/a>, linking to The Common Good Network, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecommongood.org\/CGN\/3_3\/biblicalmarriage.html\" title=\"In defense of Biblical marriage\">posted their version<\/a> on February 4th, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The Common Good Network gave attribution to The Boston Phoenix, who published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonphoenix.com\/boston\/news_features\/this_just_in\/documents\/03356537.asp\" title=\"BIBLICAL SENSE\">more Massacheussets-specific version<\/a> of the text between Nov.\u00a028th and Dec.\u00a04th, 2003 under the byline of Mary-Ann Greanier.<\/p>\n<p>However, searching through my archives, I <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/marriage_by_the.html\" title=\"Marriage by the Book\">linked to and quoted nearly the identical text<\/a> on August 26th, 2003, after discovering it through the <a href=\"http:\/\/exgay.blogs.com\/xgw\/2003\/08\/biblical_marria.html\" title=\"Ex-Gay Watch: Biblical Marriage\">Ex-Gay Watch<\/a> via a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dashes.com\/links\/archives\/20030824.php#007075\" title=\"Anil's Daily Links: Biblical Marriage\">Anil Dash<\/a>, and linked to the original version (to my knowledge) on <a href=\"http:\/\/nuisance.blogspot.com\/2003_08_01_nuisance_archive.html#106127303102229366\" title=\"Biblical Marriage\">Public Nuisance<\/a> from August 18th, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m sure that <a href=\"http:\/\/nuisance.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Public Nuisance\">Alex Frantz of Public Nuisance<\/a> is flattered that his creation is still making the rounds, shouldn&#8217;t credit be given where credit is due?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m sure that Alex Frantz of Public Nuisance is flattered that his creation is still making the rounds, shouldn&#8217;t credit be given where credit is due?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[103,599],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-religion","tag-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}