God and Gay Marriage, part 2
12 Nov
So, as I said in an earlier post, I don’t think the topic of God and homosexuality is as open-and-shut as a lot of our opponents claim it to be. On a really basic level, how the heck could anyone know what God thinks? Why not just give us all the same rights and let God figure it out in the end? But I’m getting off-topic. A lot of arguments are made that are Bible-based, and I’d like to address some of those here.
First of all, the Bible only talks about homosexual relations in terms of sex outside of a marriage or committed relationship…which it always says is wrong. The Bible never speaks (explicitly, anyway) about sex between a loving, committed gay couple. So with that in mind, in my opinion, that the broad argument of “the Bible says it’s wrong” doesn’t have any validity.
Second, let’s look at the “explicitly” comment I made above. Some biblical scholars say that there are loving, committed relationships in the Bible, and because of thousands of years of translations and mistranslations, among other things, they aren’t explicit. One of the readings I plan to have at our wedding, Ruth 1:16-17, references one of them.
