Gay Marriage Article in Newsweek

[Guest MonkeySee]

Here is a clip from a newsweek article on gay marriage. The full article is: http://www.newsweek.com/id/172653?gt1=43002

 

Opponents of gay marriage often cite Scripture. But what the Bible teaches about love argues for the other side.

 

Let's try for a minute to take the religious conservatives at their word and define marriage as the Bible does. Shall we look to Abraham, the great patriarch, who slept with his servant when he discovered his beloved wife Sarah was infertile? Or to Jacob, who fathered children with four different women (two sisters and their servants)? Abraham, Jacob, David, Solomon and the kings of Judah and Israel—all these fathers and heroes were polygamists. The New Testament model of marriage is hardly better. Jesus himself was single and preached an indifference to earthly attachments—especially family. The apostle Paul (also single) regarded marriage as an act of last resort for those unable to contain their animal lust. "It is better to marry than to burn with passion," says the apostle, in one of the most lukewarm endorsements of a treasured institution ever uttered. Would any contemporary heterosexual married couple—who likely woke up on their wedding day harboring some optimistic and newfangled ideas about gender equality and romantic love—turn to the Bible as a how-to script?

 

Of course not, yet the religious opponents of gay marriage would have it be so.

 

[Guest Steve1903]

Religious books - I'd have the lot of them burned. Way too many people have been brainwashed with that garbage.

[Guest MonkeySee]

Here is a musical clip about prop 8 and gay marriage. It is really a hoot.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c0cf508ff...d-rashida-jones