(November 15, 2015 at 12:51 am)Shining_Finger Wrote:(November 14, 2015 at 8:30 pm)Lek Wrote: According to the bible, two people of the same sex cannot be married, so they also cannot divorce because they weren't married in the first place.Really?
What verse?
Genesis 1:27-28English Standard Version (ESV)
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Matthew 19:4-6English Standard Version (ESV)
4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
These two quotes both relate to a man and woman joining in a union, becoming "one flesh", and multiplying. Two men or two women cannot multiply. I'll grant you that the bible doesn't specifically condemn marriage between people of the same sex, but the bible condemns sexual relations between them. So if same sex marriage is OK according to the bible, it would have to be a marriage without sexual relations.
