{"id":1307,"date":"2003-08-05T13:29:13","date_gmt":"2003-08-05T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2003\/08\/05\/sexualized-god\/"},"modified":"2003-08-05T13:29:13","modified_gmt":"2003-08-05T17:29:13","slug":"sexualized-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2003\/08\/05\/sexualized-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexualized God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a73'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure that this has been brought up before.<\/p>\n<p>If we allow the sexuality issue to split the Episcopal Church, then what we&#8217;re saying is that sexuality (or the Scriptural understanding and interpretation around sexuality) are the most important issues facing us.  Even more so, we are saying that this issue and its connection to our understanding of God are SO important that they necessitate a split in the church.  In essence, we will be sexualizing God and declaring that to be the most important aspect of the Deity.<\/p>\n<p>Both &#8220;sides&#8221; seem guilty of this to me.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s tragic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure that this has been brought up before. If we allow the sexuality issue to split the Episcopal Church, then what we&#8217;re saying is that sexuality (or the Scriptural understanding and interpretation around sexuality) are the most important issues facing us. Even more so, we are saying that this issue and its connection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rayleejun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-l5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}