{"id":405,"date":"2012-02-29T23:27:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T04:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/02\/29\/professor-sneed-quoted-in-los-angeles-times\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:23:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:23:57","slug":"professor-sneed-quoted-in-los-angeles-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/professor-sneed-quoted-in-los-angeles-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Sneed quoted in Los Angeles Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2058\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/roger-sneed.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2058\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2058 lazyload\" title=\"roger-sneed\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/roger-sneed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"230\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 160px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 160\/230;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Roger Sneed<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman religion professor Roger Sneed was quoted in a Los Angeles Times\u00a0article about the recent passage of the gay marriage law in Maryland.\u00a0 Sneed commented about the fact that support for same-sex marriage is weak among African Americans in Maryland, who make up almost 30% of the state&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n<p>Sneed, who joined the Furman faculty in 2007, is a graduate of the University of Tulsa.\u00a0 He has a M.Div. degree from Emory University and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.\u00a0 His research interests include African American religious thought and traditions, religion and sexuality, and religion and cultural studies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-maryland-gay-marriage-20120224,0,5931580.story\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman religion professor Roger Sneed was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about the recent passage of the gay marriage law in Maryland. Sneed commented about the fact that support for same-sex marriage is weak among African Americans in Maryland, who make up almost 30% of the state&#8217;s population. Sneed joined the Furman faculty in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-religion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}