[Magdalen] Scripture Study Redux

[Jon Egger]

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote, “Unfortunately, people of faith
can take no comfort in the treatment they receive from the majority today.”

As a person of faith, I resent that he assumptiously speaks for me.

Grace, peace, and grrr,
brud

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> Learn something new every day -- the Scripture passages used against LGBT
> people are called "Clobber Passages."
>
> From the moment the Supreme Court ruled last month in favor of a
> constitutional right to same-sex marriage, opponents placed the decision in
> a very specific analytical frame. Here, they contended, was an egregious
> example of secular culture triumphing over religious values and religious
> freedom.
>
> “Profoundly immoral and unjust,” the United States Conference of Catholic
> Bishops said in a statement. The Orthodox Union, the national association
> of Orthodox Jewish congregations, declared its “emphatic” and “unalterable”
> religious opposition to same-sex marriage. The prominent evangelist
> Franklin Graham reiterated that God had created marriage between man and
> woman and said, “His decisions are not subject to review or revision by any
> man-made court.”
>
> In the dissenting opinions in the 5-to-4 vote, justices seemed to
> anticipate the battles to come over adherence to the law by individuals and
> institutions that doctrinally oppose same-sex marriage. Justice Clarence
> Thomas noted the “potentially ruinous consequences for religious liberty,”
> while Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote, “Unfortunately, people of
> faith can take no comfort in the treatment they receive from the majority
> today.”
>
> Yet the discussion of secularism versus religion is incomplete. It ignores
> or elides the growing number of theologians and religious scholars in a
> range of faiths who, over a half-century, have been assembling and
> espousing scriptural arguments in favor of gay rights and ultimately
> marriage equality. The debate about same-sex marriage that has gotten too
> little attention is the intrareligious one.
>
> Well worth the read at:
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/us/push-within-religions-for-gay-marriage-gets-little-attention.htmlCheers
> ,
> Jim
>
> "The enemy isn’t liberalism;
> the enemy isn’t conservatism.
> The enemy, is baloney." - Lars Erik Nelson
>