Point one, what do you expect from someone who can't tell myth from reality?
Point two, like Steven L. Anderson, Chap My Lips is taking ONE verse, cherry-picked from the Bible and making a theology around it: "Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." (Matt 19:6)
The issue, if one reads the text immediately following, it tells you what Jesus was referring to - divorce: "They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?" (Matt 19:7) If one reads the text preceding said verse, you will find the context, "The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?" (Matt 19:3) This has to do with gay marriage how?
Point three, and this point highlights why one verse theology never works. No, Gordon, Christ did not "define marriage between one man and one woman". If one continues to read Matthew 19, one will read this, "But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it." (vv 11-12)
In other words Christ has qualified an exception to Adam and Eve (Gen 2:24) by citing three kinds of eunuchs to whom His marriage teaching does not apply. Context is important Gordon, but it is obviously something you don't understand as you also ignore the fact that "one man with one woman" is not God's rule for marriage because scripture makes exceptions for other situations as well.
Need I go on?
A Colorado Republican and TV evangelist calls for a new St. Patrick to expel modern-day “snakes” — the preacher’s term for gay people — out of Ireland, Right Wing Watch reports.Colorado Republican calls gay people ‘snakes’ — wants a new St. Patrick to drive them out of Ireland
During a taping of his “Pray in Jesus Name” show, which airs on an online channel called “Pray in Jesus Name News,” State Representative Gordon Klingenschmitt (R-Colorado Springs) reacted to Ireland’s vote this month in favor of legalizing gay marriage throughout the country.
“There was a time when it was said that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland,” Klingenschmitt reminds viewers. “And now I’m concerned that the snakes have returned to Ireland. And when I say snakes, I’m not talking about physical snakes, I’m talking about the demonic spirits inside of some of the people you see parading their sin in pride around the country, rejecting not just the Catholic Church but rejecting Jesus Christ himself.”
“And some people think oh, you know,” Klingenschmitt continues mockingly, “the Irish Catholics they’re rejecting the Pope.”
“No!” the former Navy chaplain clarifies sternly.
“It’s the young people rejecting Jesus Christ,” Klingenschmitt explains, “is what’s happening here,” and cites a Bible verse in favor of heterosexual marriage to support his thesis.
“What God has joined together,” the preacher says dramatically, “let no one separate.”
“Jesus Christ defined marriage between one man and one woman,” Klingenschmitt finally says in a video clip Right Wing Watch posted Friday, “and maybe it’s time for another St. Patrick to go back into Ireland and preach the good news that Jesus can make you free from sin and drive out the snakes once again.”
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