{"id":12548,"date":"2013-12-23T00:46:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T00:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/12\/23\/the-fact-of-the-matter-is-it-doesnt-matter\/"},"modified":"2013-12-23T00:46:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T00:46:18","slug":"the-fact-of-the-matter-is-it-doesnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/12\/23\/the-fact-of-the-matter-is-it-doesnt-matter\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The fact of the matter is, it doesn\u2019t matter whether or not you think homosexuality is a sin. Let me say that again. It does not matter if you think homosexuality is a sin, or if you think it is simply another expression of human love. It doesn\u2019t matter. Why doesn\u2019t it matter? Because people are dying. Kids are literally killing themselves because they are so tired of being rejected and dehumanized that they feel their only option left is to end their life. As a Youth Pastor, this makes me physically ill. And as a human, it should make you feel the same way. So, I\u2019m through with the debate.<\/p>\n<p>When faced with the choice between being theologically correct\u2026as if this is even possible\u2026and being morally responsible, I\u2019ll go with morally responsible every time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/intheparlor.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/19\/what-you-believe-about-homosexuality-doesnt-matter\/\">What You Believe About Homosexuality Doesn\u2019t\u00a0Matter<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0|\u00a0Tyler Smither<\/h2>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/gaywrites.org\/\">gaywrites<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact of the matter is, it doesn\u2019t matter whether or not you think homosexuality is a sin. Let me say that again. It does not matter if you think homosexuality is a sin, or if you think it is simply another expression of human love. It doesn\u2019t matter. Why doesn\u2019t it matter? Because people &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/12\/23\/the-fact-of-the-matter-is-it-doesnt-matter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4235,4234,4233,3066,3698],"class_list":["post-12548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-but","tag-especially-particular-things","tag-i-dont-like-reblogging-political-things","tag-this","tag-this-this-this","post_format-post-format-quote","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}