RE: same-sex marriage

Ephesians 5 refers to the Christian definition of marriage. I do not see anywhere any mention of Dick and Harry. Please, let us not get around it by calling Harry the wife and Dick the husband! Also, we will run into problems with the definition of marriage as between a man and a women unless we specify XY and XX chromosomes, for man and woman, respectively.
 
Moorad
 

Marriage Like Christ and the Church

 22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

 23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.

 24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

 25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

 26so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

 27that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.

 28So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

 29for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

 30because we are members of His body.

 31FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.

 32This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

 33Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu on behalf of pcjones5@comcast.net
Sent: Fri 6/9/2006 1:49 PM
To: Debbie Mann; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: RE: same-sex marriage

> I am not FOR same-sex marriage. I am against the conflict. I am against
> people stating that it will end civilization as we know it. I am against
> hate.

How does opposition to same-sex marriage equate to hate?

-Phil
Received on Fri Jun 9 15:03:37 2006