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I read your article. From the beginning to the end, all the various approaches (felt kind of like the kitchen sink thing) you use made me think you had a conclusion well before any study. And that conclusion was you wanted to affirm gay marriage. I don’t think it was drawn by any biblical encouragement or agreement, but more because it seems right nowadays.

The slippery slope argument is irrelevant. So I agree with you there, that’s just pragmatism. The question is, is gay marriage right or is it wrong?

The fact that you needed to mention “clobber texts” shows to me a purposeful diminishment of those scriptures. There’s no such thing as clobber texts, but there is such a thing as the word of God. Anyone needing to describe scripture that way is kind of like Satan saying “Did God really say…“ It’s an attempt to shame the person referencing those texts.

And then the attempt to say this is a literalist v. spirit of the texts exegesis was another red herring. “Be fruitful and multiply” was certainly a command and a directive from God. But to force that text to say something it’s not saying, and then apply the same logic to the clear prohibitions of homosexuality is sophistry. There is no question that God, through the Jews in the Old Testament, and later the Christians in the New, has declared that it’s against His order, and it’s a sin. It’s not complicated. So, what to do?

The reality is that God set up humanity as through a man-woman based marriage. Full stop. The scripture bears this out where it calls homosexuality a sin, and any a student of human history knows that this is the essential building block, and a metaphor of God and His church.

Can gay partners enjoy gay sex and brotherly love? Of course. But that’s not the point. These relationships go against God‘s order, and if we must bring pragmatism into the argument, they are fraught with pain – often times the participants have a deep-seated guilt because they know deep down that are doing something wrong and it’s against the cosmic order. Square peg, round hole. But in our post-Christian culture, they are encouraged, even celebrated, because of their courage and they’re alternative Interpretation of conjugal love. It isn’t healthy, it doesn’t resonate with reality, and the God of the Universe designed it differently.

We ought not attempt to coddle and give them comfort as they degrade themselves and live a lie. We ought to do the opposite, and love them by not looking the other way but, instead, help restore them.