{"id":24424,"date":"2026-06-21T04:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/a-snapshot-of-an-american-family-for-pride\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T04:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:04:59","slug":"a-snapshot-of-an-american-family-for-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/a-snapshot-of-an-american-family-for-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"A Snapshot of an American Family for Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Everlit Audio Player\" src=\"https:\/\/everlit.audio\/embeds\/artl_wQ0gGSmxjwP?ui_title_intro=Listen+now%3A&amp;client=wp&amp;client_version=3.2.3\" width=\"100%\" height=\"136px\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=CCELI5333009174\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Can a family be radical, and radically ordinary, at the same time? The question came up as I interviewed my guest this week \u2013 author Brad Gooch, who happens to be married to host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, and the other dad to their two kids.<\/p>\n<p>Brad has written a book, <em>Good Morning Moon: A Snapshot of an American Family, <\/em>that\u2019s both a personal memoir and a loving telling of their family\u2019s story. During Pride Month, as same-gender families are being challenged on religious and political grounds, it\u2019s wonderful to step away from the struggles and celebrate just how beautifully ordinary this radical life has turned out to be.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also wonderful to celebrate how marriage equality, the law of the land since 2015, has turned out not to be the affront to religious freedom and traditional values despite all the fearmongering we\u2019ve all endured. Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons authored a comprehensive new Interfaith Alliance report<em>, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interfaithalliance.org\/post\/marriagereport\"><em>Same-Gender Marriage and Religious Freedom<\/em><\/a>, and he joins me to share some highlights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More about our guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brad Gooch<\/strong> is a best-selling poet, novelist and biographer whose books include biographies of Keith Haring, Frank O\u2019Hara, Rumi, and Flannery O\u2019Connor. His latest book is titled <em>Good Morning Moon: A Snapshot of an American Family<\/em>. It\u2019s part memoir, part mystery, and a profile of the way many of us have been living, particularly since marriage equality became the law of the land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons<\/strong> is Senior Vice President of Programs and Policy at Interfaith Alliance. Also living in a same-gender marriage, Guthrie is the author of <em>Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n        <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2026\/06\/20\/paul-brad-and-the-kids-a-snapshot-of-an-american-family-for-pride\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff Can a family be radical, and radically ordinary, at the same time? The question came up as I interviewed my guest this week \u2013 author Brad Gooch, who happens to be married to host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, and the other dad to their two kids. Brad has written a book, Good Morning Moon: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}