Finally! God and Newsweek on our side!!

A great article came out in Newsweek this week - Gay Marriage: Our Mutual Joy: http://www.newsweek.com/id/172653/

I love that someone is coming out in a major magazine and making the logical argument - that the bible really has very little to do with the gay marriage argument. Some of my favorite quotes from the article:

"In the Old Testament, the concept of family is fundamental, but examples
of what social conservatives would call "the traditional family" are scarcely to
be found. Marriage was critical to the passing along of tradition and history,
as well as to maintaining the Jews' precious and fragile monotheism. But as the
Barnard University Bible scholar Alan Segal puts it, the arrangement was between
"one man and as many women as he could pay for." "

"The Bible does condemn gay male sex in a handful of passages. Twice Leviticus
refers to sex between men as "an abomination" (King James version), but these
are throwaway lines in a peculiar text given over to codes for living in the
ancient Jewish world, a text that devotes verse after verse to treatments for
leprosy, cleanliness rituals for menstruating women and the correct way to
sacrifice a goat—or a lamb or a turtle dove. Most of us no longer heed Leviticus
on haircuts or blood sacrifices; our modern understanding of the world has
surpassed its prescriptions. Why would we regard its condemnation of
homosexuality with more seriousness than we regard its advice, which is far
lengthier, on the best price to pay for a slave?"

A really good read. Newsweek is being beat up by the religious nuts for this article - but I don't think God would ever agree to be the stick used to beat people down. If you must argue, argue on your own prejudices, and stop trying to put words in God's mouth. so there!