{"id":2705,"date":"2017-04-10T00:40:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T07:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2017-04-10T00:40:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T07:40:17","slug":"pope-meets-gay-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/04\/10\/pope-meets-gay-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Meets Gay Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><em>Pope <\/em><\/strong>recently hosted a visit by <strong>Xavier Bettel<\/strong>, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg.\u00a0 As is customary when meeting a head of state, the Pontiff also invites the spouse (if there is one).\u00a0 As it turns out, Xavier is the world&#8217;s only gay, married leader.\u00a0 So he went to the <em>Vatican<\/em> with his husband, <strong>Gauthier Destenay<\/strong>. \u00a0Xavier later <em>Tweeted<\/em>, &#8220;It was a great pleasure and honour for me and Gauthier to be welcomed by the leader of the Catholic church.\u00a0 XB&#8221;\u00a0 This story reminded me of another story from last year.\u00a0 Back then, the <em>Holy See <\/em>implied that they would not be so happy to welcome a proposed French diplomat to the <em>Vatican<\/em> who was gay.\u00a0 That diplomat was not assigned, so the issue was skirted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope recently hosted a visit by Xavier Bettel, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg.\u00a0 As is customary when meeting a head of state, the Pontiff also invites the spouse (if there is one).\u00a0 As it turns out, Xavier is the world&#8217;s only gay, married leader.\u00a0 So he went to the Vatican with his husband, Gauthier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}