A Gay Marriage Surge

Traditional Church teaching falsely misuses the Bible to judge the homosexual lifestyle. True Biblical theology begins not with Church tradition and dogma but with the biblical texts themselves. Biblical theology seeks to understand how the biblical authors expressed themselves in the Koine Greek of the time (not expanded by later modern Greek
meanings), in terms of their culture. Only with this understanding is it legitimate to define biblical sexual ethics of the NT and find implications for today.


Well then, lets all go and look up Leviticus 18:22 shall we?

It's not just Homosexuality that gets prohibited in there.

# harvesting the corners of a field (19:9)
# eating fruit from a young tree (19:23)
# wearing clothes that are made from a textile blend (19:19)
# cross-breeding livestock (19:19)
# sowing a field with mixed seed (19:19)
# shaving or getting a hair cut (19:27)
# tattoos (19:28)
# even a mildly disabled person from becoming a priest (21:18)
# charging of interest on a loan (25:37)

Lets not forget tha the same passage requires that:

* a child to be killed if he/she curses their parent (20:9)
* all persons guilty of adultery to be killed (20:10)
* the daughter of a priest who engages in prostitution to be killed (21:9)
* the bride of a priest to be a virgin (21:13)
* ritual killing of animals, using cattle, sheep and goats (22:19)
* observation of 7 feasts: Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, Feast of Firstfruits, Feast of Pentecost, Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles (23)
* a person who takes the Lord???s name in vain is to be killed (24:16)

But, if we translate the original Hebrew word for word, we get,

" And with a male thou shalt not lie down in beds of a woman; it is an abomination."

In modern day English this could be translated as:

"Men may not engage in homosexual sex while on a woman???s bed; it is an abomination"

That is, "rather than forbidding male homosexuality, it simply restricts where it may occur." This may seem a strange prohibition to us today, but was quite consistent with other instructions in Leviticus which involve improper mixing of things that should be kept separate. e.g. ancient Israelites were not allowed to mix two crops in the same field, or make cloth out of two different raw materials. or plow a field with an ox and a donkey yoked together. A woman???s bed was her own. Only her husband was permitted there, and then only under certain circumstances. Any other use of her bed would be a defilement.

There are even a few same sex partnerships in the bible if you look closley.

* Ruth and Naomi
* David and Jonathan
* Daniel and Ashpenaz

And Yahweh seemed quite content to let them alone ...

CORRECTION:
PART OF BEING A MAN OR A WOMAN is being able to deal with the problems IN A MATURE way. IS NOT DEFINED BY SEXUAL PREFERENCES. SO PLEASE GROW UP!!!!!!!!!!!!

Think about this:
1) Why do we get married?
2) What is the definition of a man? Or a woman?
3) Are homosexuals unable to reproduce?

Just short of 9 months from now I will enter a heterosexual marriage. Never once have I justified my wedding because I am a woman and he is a man. I'm getting married because I love him and I want to spend my life with him. Period. It has nothing to do with religion or civil rights or taxes. A gay person is capable of the same love and the same desire for lifelong companionship. What's the difference?

What makes me a woman? I have a vagina, which makes me female and the physiological hormones and psychological processes to match. Not all people are born with matching parts to their hormones or psychological feelings. Some people are born with a mixture. This is not breaking news. We've all heard of humans being born with half a penis and half a vagina. . So what if someone was born with a woman's brain and a penis? What if GOD made them that way? Human reproduction is not perfect and neither are humans.

Which brings me to my next point; homosexual people are not infertile, they just can't biologically have children TOGETHER. A perfect example of this is the "man" who just gave birth and is expecting another on the way. Homosexual does not equal infertile.

One last question: How does homosexuality affect you? Does it come to your house at night and abduct your children? Does it steal your car? Or your money? Does it impose physical harm on you? Harass and reject you? Only if you ARE homosexual might any of these apply. We live in a world polluted with terrorism, drug abuse, senseless violence, rape and molestation, poverty and starvation. Of all the conflict that exists in the world, why do we put so much energy into trying to prevent two people from marrying to love one other for the rest of their lives?

I don't think accepting gay marriage would be opening Pandora's Box. Most people supporting gay marriage view marriage as a deep, loving, committed relationship between equal partners and would probably reject any type of marriage that is not such a relationship or is well outside current relationship norms. So you won't be able to marry your sister, a child, your dog, etc. as such marriages would be ridiculous. Polygamist may seek marriage rights and have a little support, but polygamy would only be excepted if it was a committed relationship between equal consenting partners, which isn't always the case. Also, polygamy is sufficiently outside current norms (and rare) that they probably wouldn't get the right to marry multiply partners just because gay people have the right to marry. So I think that concern about this Pandora's Box scenario where if gays can marry then every other silly type of marriage will follow is just an irrational fear.

Hey, why does Marriage has to be between 2 people?? Who to say that a marriage has to be a couple?? Heck, i like to have 3 or more husbands!! The more the Merrier!!

Just wait, that'll be next in near future!! Polygamist will have a field day!!!

oh by the way, can i marry my sister??

Hey, why does a marriage have to even be between 2 people?? Heck, let's me have 3 husbands or MORE!!! The more the merrier!!
Just wait, that'll be next!!! Polygamiest will have a field day!!!

They should have the right. I think that they need do be able to get married so they can face the "honey can you get me thats" and "honey, how come you can get it up for porn but you can't get it up for me?" and the incessant questioning you about the thing they already know the answer to but pretend they don't just so they can corner you if you lie to them bring it back up five years later when trying to explain to that MONEY GRUBBING BITCH THAT I WAS ONLY RUBBING THAT GIRL'S FEET BECAUSE IT WAS SPAZIMING!.

yeah jump on othe bandwagon kids...your future awaits.

IBoy tells his dad- Jack & Bob go to a different church than we go to, but hey go every sunday. Kids at school say they want to be married I think they are really nice people. What do you think Dad ? Dad- stay away from those 2 - they are different from us. But Dad - it's not like the others they are the saame color and from this country. Dad- they have no business in ourneighborhood- they don't have the right to be married to each other. Oh wow Dad I didn't know that. Wait till I get in class monday - we have been studying the constittution and declaration of independence. I will tell thre class
that not everybody has the same rights. Hey Dad who tells us what rights each bunch of people have since there are different ways to get the liberty and pursuit of happiness and equal stuff we have been talking about at school. I did not know that different church people that say they believe in Jesus and God did not also believe the same way. Jack & Bob say they believe in Jesus and God and go to their church where some women go that want to be married. Dad - just tell me what to say to my class monday - I bet they would like to have you tell them about Jack & Bob.