Conservatives, Marriage and the Bible

 

If all you listen to is conservatives then...

• Marriage is nothing more than written permission from authorities to have sex.
• The lyrics of the old song - Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage - were part of the liberal homosexualist agenda when they were written by Sammy Cahn back in 1955.
• Allowing people to marry for love is "unchecked hedonism" - Rush Limbaugh (Limbaugh is a serial polygamist who has married four times).
• By biblical tradition, marriage is one man-one woman.

On that last point, if you use the Bible as a guide for marriage you get a perverted array of definitions.

• Rape Marriage - The Bible requires a raped virgin to marry her attacker. (Deut. 22:28).
• Polygamy - The Bible clearly defines marriage as one man and as many women as he can get his hands on. King Solomon holds the record of 700 wives (1 Kings 11:1).
• Inherited Marriage - A childless widow was required to marry her brother-in-law (Gen. 38:6).
• War Prize Marriage - Beautiful women capture during war could be taken as wives (Deut. 21:11).

In the Israelite war against the Midianites (Numbers 31) God ordered all the men, male children, and non-virgin women to be killed. Virgin women and children (32,000 in total) were divided up between the soldiers and civilians as wives and slaves. Thirty-two were taken by God as human sacrifices.