Then, Ron, why honor what I still say are questionable interpretations of biblical prohibitions of gay marriage/sex?
Actually, they are not at all questionable. The Levite law is rather uncompromising, and nothing in the NT changes that - and that's why I think, as originally stated, it is foolish and fruitless to argue from the text of either the OT or the NT that homosexual unions are somehow okay.
Certainly I see nothing in the NT, other than Paul's questionable statements, to support such a ban. Or am I misreading you?
To repeat what I wrote elsewhere: Jesus said that he came to fulfill the law, not to destroy it - that would include the Levite restrictions on sexual conduct as well, would it not? He also stated that not a jot or tittle of the law would be changed before the Day of Judgment; thus, you get no literal help from Jesus in okaying it. Hence, my continued insistence that to try and generally argue it from scripture is a more or less hopeless task.
Again, please understand that my argument is solely on the point of trying to justify on the basis of text from the Bible.
