As I understand things, Marcus Bachmann believes that gay men should only be allowed to marry females... Although he doesn't bother to specify whether the females in question must themselves be not-gay.
This is a small step along a progression that we've been seeing in the right wing for over a decade:
- Marriage is only between members of the opposite sex.
- The whole point of marriage is to produce children. Gay couples cannot do that.
- Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice, just like one chooses to eat only organic foods, or opts to develop one's career before starting a family, or other such elective life choices.
- If we allowed gays to marry, they would indoctrinate their children into the "gay lifestyle."
- Marriage is between *one* man and *one* woman.
Every single one of these talking points derives from a biblical proclamation made over 2500 years ago. For people that wear their evangelical stripes with pride, it isn't surprising that they don't acknowledge that Jesus said exactly zero about homosexuality. They'll quote new testament verses that vaguely support the notion that Jesus' arrival on the scene signaled a selective continuation of various old testament laws, but not others.
Their mental gymnastics would make Mary Lou Retton hand in her medals:
What of the old testament dietary rules? Nah, that's not what Jesus was on about.
What about unclean vs clean animals? Nope, not that either.
What about animal sacrifice as a method of worshipping god? Nope.
What about polygamy? Nope - somehow, without saying shit about it, EVER, Jesus clearly mandated that monogamy was the sole acceptable option.
Anything on the rule that women weren't to speak in the temples? Nope - that's ok.
How about the rule that if a man's brother were killed in battle, the surviving brother must take his former sister-in-law as his wife? Of COURSE not.
What about the rule against homosexual behavior?
Hey you abominations, OBVIOUSLY this was Jesus' intention, and it was what he specifically implied when he said that he came not to undo the old covenant, but instead to fulfill it.
Well, unlike slave ownership and the mandate that a woman must be stoned to death if it is determined that she married after losing her virginity, it appears that anti-homosexual attitudes were silently sanctioned by the son of god, even though he never brought them up, and represents yet another instance of evangelicals forcing their selective biblical interpretations on the public they purport to serve, under a Constituton they swear to god to defend and uphold.
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