[Cronos]

Old Reggie -- Is this what is meant by the phrase in your tagline: "Biblical Unitarian"?

"When any commentator says religion is against gay marriage, it really rankles me," said the Rev. Jan Carlsson-Bull of the Unitarian Univeralist Congregation of the Catskills.

UU ministers presided over hundreds of gay weddings in New Paltz in 2004 after Mayor Jason West was barred from doing so.

Nothing in the old or new testaments suggests to Carlsson-Bull that marriage must be between a man and a woman.

"(The Bible) is not a doctrine, but an anthology," she said. "It was put together by decisions that were political as well as religious."

Unitarians seem to believe in absolutely nothing except liberalism.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I attended a Unitarian funeral some years ago. I couldn’t tell when the service started, who the minister was, who died or who the bereaved were...

[Westbrook]

> Unitarians seem to believe in absolutely nothing except liberalism.

Exactly.

Leftism is their faith. Where it agrees with the Word of YHWH, they are ok. Where it disagrees with the Word of YHWH, they will either torture the meaining of the words to
“deconstruct” (a Maoist term) them into a different meaning, or they will just dismiss it as the word of man, and not the Word of YHWH.

The Left does exactly the same thing with the Constitution.

The same can be said for most of “reformed” Judaism, and most “mainstream denominations”.

[sr4402]

"(The Bible) is not a doctrine, but an anthology,"

I think she was forgetting that Pesky Phrase "THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY"

[OLD REGGIE]

Old Reggie -- Is this what is meant by the phrase in your tagline: "Biblical Unitarian"?

[jiminycricket000]

"Nothing in the old or new testaments suggests to Carlsson-Bull that marriage must be between a man and a woman."

Nothing, of course, but the insignificant little fact that every single marriage in biblcial times was between a man and a woman, and the concept of any other sort of 'marriage' union was so foreign to people during biblical times that it wasn't even a thing they could conceive of and write about, let alone condone.

In Biblical times marriage was formulated to create a culturally legal, God-given formula to protect the children of a man and a woman, and to protect the wife from being claimed by any other man. The family had to be protected in order to maintain order and to protect the entire nation from anarchy and feuding divisions that would destroy a nation. In short, marriage in biblical times was ALL about one man, one woman, their children, and the protection of this family unit.

To attempt to use the Bible, which contains a long period of human history where each and every marriage was between a man and a woman, as evidence to prove a homosexual "marriage" was not forbidden by Scripture, is literal insanity, as well as a literal ignorance of the Bible itself.