re: Gallup, June 2021 polling: majority of republicans now support gay marriage.

Support and don’t think the government should be involved are two different questions.

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It is inherently Biblical in the sense that God, who created everything including mankind, and instituted marriage in creating one male and one female and joining them together for the purposes of procreating and multiplying the face of the Earth with people.

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Christians always say the Biblical definition of marriage is strictly one man and one woman, which is weird because it really isn't true. It's almost like a majority of them don't read the book...which in fact the statistics suggest is true.

Only two passages in the Bible, both in the NT, can reasonably be construed as alluding to a concept of one man and one woman. The rest of the Bible, including the entirety of the OT, defines marriage as essentially one man and however many women of reproductive age he can support.

Gallup is a joke. I have been part of their poll group for ten years. I always got polled at least once per month since I am a registered independent. I said that I disapproved of the Biden Presidency back in February and I have not gotten another poll request from them since.

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Christians always say the Biblical definition of marriage is strictly one man and one woman, which is weird because it really isn't true. It's almost like a majority of them don't read the book...which in fact the statistics suggest is true.

Only two passages in the Bible, both in the NT, can reasonably be construed as alluding to a concept of one man and one woman. The rest of the Bible, including the entirety of the OT, defines marriage as essentially one man and however many women of reproductive age he can support.

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Looks everyone. It's our resident Biblical scholar who doesn't understand the Bible!

We used to have scientific polls called statewide referenda which were almost always finding that a majority of people were opposed to this. Even a liberal state like California saw this happen less than 13 years ago. Then robed men and women said we couldn’t have those anymore….I’m guessing because they felt all of human history and the contemporary majority were both wrong about this cornerstone issue. Now we rely on Gallup polls to tell us how people feel.

I miss the old way.

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Looks everyone. It's our resident Biblical scholar who doesn't understand the Bible!

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The majority of the prominent men in the OT were married to multiple women at the same time. Solomon had 700 wives (plus hundreds of concubines). It’s a ubiquitous practice that the OT doesn’t condemn. Even Answers in Genesis, as biased a Christian organization as there is, acknowledges that nowhere in the Bible does it say a man is only allowed to have one wife at a time. Even the few passages that allude to monogamy in the NT don’t state this.

This is why Christian apologetic circles have devoted so much time to constructing narratives around why this practice is no longer allowed today and God only tolerated it back then because reasons.

my only opposition to Freaks getting their freak on was them co-opting the word marriage.

I could care less if they received a civil union that is in the law the same.

Government should have nothing to do with marriage. I’m sticking with that position.

I still agree with God.

If you disagree with God because something is cooler than it used to be, then that’s on you.

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I was specifically responding to the claim that the Bible clearly defines marriage as one man and one woman forever, because that’s the crux of the religious argument.

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I agree that there is no evidence in the Bible that dictates only one man and one woman. The frequently cited single passage to support that idea IMO refers to the genders of the participants, not the number, and ignores the entire Old Testament in which multiple wives and concubines was the norm.

However, it's pretty clear on homosexuality.