{"id":94804,"date":"2016-06-29T01:50:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T01:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/29\/cracked-according-to-yale-history-professor-john\/"},"modified":"2018-09-01T19:31:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T19:31:26","slug":"cracked-according-to-yale-history-professor-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/29\/cracked-according-to-yale-history-professor-john\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-94804 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/29\/cracked-according-to-yale-history-professor-john\/attachment\/94805\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o98nh5hNni1qz5q5lo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o98nh5hNni1qz5q5lo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o98nh5hNni1qz5q5lo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cracked.tumblr.com\/post\/146453675614\" target=\"_blank\">cracked<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to Yale history professor John Boswell, if two dudes wanted to hook up, the Catholic Church would <a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1994%2F06%2F11%2Fus%2Fbeliefs-study-medieval-rituals-same-sex-unions-raises-question-what-were-they.html%3Fpagewanted%3Dall&amp;t=MjIyMzk5OWI4YWI5ZjQ5ZDA4ZGFkYjRmNThkYjRhMjM2YTcwMGRiYixWZ3NoaGVYZA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">straight-up bless their boning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to clarify, the Church has never officially performed the full-blown sacrament of marriage between people of the same sex. These Catholic homosexual unions were what the New York Times describes as \u201ca ritual joining two men in some kind of a solemn, personal, affectionate relationship.\u201d So it\u2019s more of a civil union kind of deal \u2013 the same in all the ways that count, just a different name.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a snippet from the official ceremony: \u201cSend down, most kind Lord, the grace of Thy Holy Spirit upon these Thy servants, whom Thou hast found worthy to be united not by nature but by faith and a holy spirit. Grant unto them Thy grace to love each other in joy without injury or hatred all the days of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><b><a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cracked.com%2Farticle_20474_5-shockingly-progressive-ideas-from-primitive-cultures.html%3Fwa_user1%3D5%26wa_user2%3DHistory%26wa_user3%3Darticle%26wa_user4%3Dcompanion&amp;t=N2MxY2M4MGQ1NWE2YWI0OWVkNzE1YTAxNjY1ZWRlOGRhZGJmYjM1MSxWZ3NoaGVYZA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">5 Shockingly Progressive Ideas From \u2018Primitive\u2019 Cultures<\/a><\/b><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cracked: According to Yale history professor John Boswell, if two dudes wanted to hook up, the Catholic Church would straight-up bless their boning. Now, to clarify, the Church has never officially performed the full-blown sacrament of marriage between people of the same sex. These Catholic homosexual unions were what the New York Times describes as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/29\/cracked-according-to-yale-history-professor-john\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5419,261,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94806,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94804\/revisions\/94806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}