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More local stupidity on same-sex marriage
Tags: same-sex marriage, theocracy
The phenomenon of the liberal mainline Protestant denomination is relatively recent in the context of history.  But entire groups are now unfortunately caught in this particular cesspool of scriptural revisionism.  Many of these have endorsed same sex marriage publicly; have allowed practicing homosexuals to serve as clergy; and/or have allowed same sex marriages to be conducted in their churches.
Let's grant for the sake of discussion that the liberalization of mainstream Protestant denominations has in fact contributed to the growing acceptance of same-sex marriage, a phenomenon that Guarino calls "relatively recent in the context of history" as if that's something bad. Guess what? Opposition to slavery also is "relatively recent in the context of history," in the U.S. (where it persisted for 250 years) and worldwide. And opposition to slavery, and to its toxic remnants such as Jim Crow, by mainline Protestant denominations also is relatively recent; the Southern Baptists, a denomination born in adherence to slavery, didn't get around to apologizing for it until only about 20 years ago. That long delay was a good thing?
Guarino also goes sideways in claiming that to accept and bless same-sex marriage is to "reject and revise scriptural teaching on matters related to sexuality, reproduction and the family." Sorry, Joe, but according to my King James, Jesus says the same thing today that he said 2,000 years ago: Your greatest obligation is to love God; your second greatest obligation, and the way you carry out your greatest obligation, is to love your neighbor as yourself; and everything else in Scripture as it was understood in the time of Jesus -- all the Law and the Prophets -- is to be understood in the context of those two great commandments. Nothing has changed about that in 2,000 years, despite Guarino's sloppy attempt to recast a belated willingness to comply with these commands into the scriptural equivalent of judicial activism.