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Subject: PS

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adam

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Date Posted: 16:58:28 01/19/03 Sun

Both Yeager's and Frizzell's posting remind me that marriage is problematic. It is a tough issue. It seems to me that we cannot overlook the differences of each culture's approach to marriage. I thought Frizzell's posting reminds us of our failure to understand marriage. And Yeager, highlighting the issue of polygamy in scripture, illustrates the contingency of our own conceptions.

My commentary tries to put marriage in a pretty good light. But the Bible is also pretty tough on marriage. "Unless someone HATE his father and mother....wife and children... they cannot be my disciple." (Jesus talking) Paul also talks about how someone who is single is better suited to do the God's work. Tough words, from tough men.

I am pretty confused about all of this. I think we can give a definitive answer about what marriage is according to our tradition, but it still remains to put this answer to all the troubling issues that arise.

In my state of Massachussets the issue of gay marriage was a big part of the political race for governer. Now, marriage is an issue that the "progressives" are fighting about. They say that it is a religious institution that the government is forcing upon people through taxed benefits, etc. Chad brought this up. Bush's proposed reform of the welfare system clearly favors the married. What would you say to someone who is not religious, but is required to be married to get government support? Why do they need to adopt this religious institution?

That is the one side. The ironic other side is that these same progressives find themselves fighting for gay marriage. If a heterosexual couple has the right to get married, why not the homosexual couple? So the progressive movement is in this awkward position of fighting against marriage and fighting for it in the case of gay rights. Wierd, huh?

Just a thought about the polygamy issue...What if we all of a sudden lived in a culture of polygamy. Is there anything in scripture that would prevent us from being Christian polygamists? Okay, deacons are out. They have to be the husband (dare I say wife) of one woman (man). Anything else that you can think of?

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