I haven't handed out a douche-of-the-week award in a while, but upon reading an article today, I think it's about time I hand out another, two of them as a matter of fact.
In an op-ed for the Canberra City News, Australian Christian Nick Jensen wrote the following:
"[My wife Sarah and I would] as a matter of conscience, refuse to recognize the government's regulation of marriage if its definition includes the solemnization of same sex couples. Marriage is the union of a man and a woman before a community in the sight of God. And the marriage of any couple is important to God regardless of whether that couple recognizes God's involvement or authority in it. ...For us, fundamentally, when we got married we signed a contract with the state and that contract was around the current definition of marriage and all the things that comes with it. Man and woman for life, for the sake of children. If it came to be that the definition of the contract was changed, the contract is now null and void."
After receiving the inevitable backlash regarding the op-ed, Jensen responded by saying this:
"This has been a big decision for my wife and I. Some will accuse of us being bigoted or too hateful to share. But this couldn't be further from our intentions. The truth is, 'marriage' is simply too important. It is a sacred institution, ordained by God ... Any attempt to change the definition of marriage by law is not something in which we are able to partake."
Interesting... So even though there are seven other types of marriages discussed as being legitimate in the Bible outside of the "traditional" one-man-and-one-woman union and the Bible talks about and frowns on divorce more than gay marriage, Nick and Sarah Jensen feel it's their duty, as Christians, to divorce if gay marriage is legalized, because you know, it's what God would have wanted?
While there's a growing chorus of scholars whom now believe the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was that of inhospitality and not homosexuality and the fact the Bible doesn't mention gay marriage, there is no debate that the Bible mentions multiple types of marriages, which include:
1) Man + Woman
2) Man + Wives + Concubines
3) Man + Woman + Woman's Property
4) Man + Woman + Woman + Woman
5) Man + Brother's Widow
6) Rapist + His Victim
7) Male Soldier + Prisoner of War
8) Male Slave + Female Slave
In other words, the legalization of gay marriage wouldn't be the first alteration in the definition of marriage, not by a long shot. So for this couple to threaten divorce if same-sex marriage gets legalized due to it changing the "sacred" status of marriage when there are eight different types of marriages recognized in the Bible, gay marriage isn't discussed in it at all, and divorce gets talked about and frowned upon more than homosexuality in the holy book, I think that's enough to warrant Nick and Sarah Jensen with my Douches of the Week award! Congratulations, you two! Oh, and by the way, I hope you two have a very long and happy marriage, I mean, oh, whatever...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/11/couple-divorce-marriage-equality-australia_n_7558506.html
http://www.upworthy.com/the-top-8-ways-to-be-traditionally-married-according-to-the-bible
http://www.ranker.com/list/top-20-bible-passages-to-use-against-fundamentalists/ivana-wynn
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Family/Marriage/divorce_is_a_sin.htm
In an op-ed for the Canberra City News, Australian Christian Nick Jensen wrote the following:
"[My wife Sarah and I would] as a matter of conscience, refuse to recognize the government's regulation of marriage if its definition includes the solemnization of same sex couples. Marriage is the union of a man and a woman before a community in the sight of God. And the marriage of any couple is important to God regardless of whether that couple recognizes God's involvement or authority in it. ...For us, fundamentally, when we got married we signed a contract with the state and that contract was around the current definition of marriage and all the things that comes with it. Man and woman for life, for the sake of children. If it came to be that the definition of the contract was changed, the contract is now null and void."
After receiving the inevitable backlash regarding the op-ed, Jensen responded by saying this:
"This has been a big decision for my wife and I. Some will accuse of us being bigoted or too hateful to share. But this couldn't be further from our intentions. The truth is, 'marriage' is simply too important. It is a sacred institution, ordained by God ... Any attempt to change the definition of marriage by law is not something in which we are able to partake."
Interesting... So even though there are seven other types of marriages discussed as being legitimate in the Bible outside of the "traditional" one-man-and-one-woman union and the Bible talks about and frowns on divorce more than gay marriage, Nick and Sarah Jensen feel it's their duty, as Christians, to divorce if gay marriage is legalized, because you know, it's what God would have wanted?
While there's a growing chorus of scholars whom now believe the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was that of inhospitality and not homosexuality and the fact the Bible doesn't mention gay marriage, there is no debate that the Bible mentions multiple types of marriages, which include:
1) Man + Woman
2) Man + Wives + Concubines
3) Man + Woman + Woman's Property
4) Man + Woman + Woman + Woman
5) Man + Brother's Widow
6) Rapist + His Victim
7) Male Soldier + Prisoner of War
8) Male Slave + Female Slave
In other words, the legalization of gay marriage wouldn't be the first alteration in the definition of marriage, not by a long shot. So for this couple to threaten divorce if same-sex marriage gets legalized due to it changing the "sacred" status of marriage when there are eight different types of marriages recognized in the Bible, gay marriage isn't discussed in it at all, and divorce gets talked about and frowned upon more than homosexuality in the holy book, I think that's enough to warrant Nick and Sarah Jensen with my Douches of the Week award! Congratulations, you two! Oh, and by the way, I hope you two have a very long and happy marriage, I mean, oh, whatever...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/11/couple-divorce-marriage-equality-australia_n_7558506.html
http://www.upworthy.com/the-top-8-ways-to-be-traditionally-married-according-to-the-bible
http://www.ranker.com/list/top-20-bible-passages-to-use-against-fundamentalists/ivana-wynn
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Family/Marriage/divorce_is_a_sin.htm
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