The Bible only ever speaks of marriage as between a man and a woman. Polygamy and the keeping of concubines is described and in some cases tolerated, but gay marriage is never given any mention. Gay sex is condemned in the way that fornication (presumably, with anyone except your wive(s) or concubine(s)) and adultery are. The best you might be able to read into it is that lacking a direct condemnation, gay-marriage would be allowed. To argue otherwise is to accept that anything not mentioned in the Bible must be approached in a very conservative manner (ie, when in doubt, don't do it).
Stories like the one of the adulteress brought to Jesus ("let he who is without sin cast the first stone") can also muddy the waters, in that he uses an odd argument to free her from paying the law-mandated penalty for her act. But that story also may be a later interpolation and not part of the original canon.
Stories like the one of the adulteress brought to Jesus ("let he who is without sin cast the first stone") can also muddy the waters, in that he uses an odd argument to free her from paying the law-mandated penalty for her act. But that story also may be a later interpolation and not part of the original canon.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
