New Testament is against divorce.

[Eric J in MN]

The New Testament is against divorce. Jesus equates a second-marriage with adultery, and says that a man can't divorce his wife unless she committed adultery.

http://wyllie.lib.virginia.edu:8086/perl/toccer-new?id=KjvMatt.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=5&division=div1

Bible, King James. Matthew, Chapter 5

32: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. -------------------------------------------------------
How come Bush is allowing marriage to be redefined such that divorce is acceptable? Shouldn't Bush protect marriage with an anti-divorce amendment to the US Constitution?

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. He should

He should also make it illegal to be married and not have children, since much of their argument is also that "Gay couples can't produce offspring".

I figure, maybe, after a marriage give people a 16 month time limit. if they haven't reproduced by then, then their marriage is considered null and void. And to just take us back a good thousand years or more, let's make it that the bride's family has to pay the groom's family half of their assets as restitution for publicly humiliating the man by not producing a child. The woman shall also be labelled unmarriagable, and her parents will have to support her for the rest of her life; she will never be allowed to receive social security, medicaid, medicare, or welfare. And taxis will be allowed to drive ber her without picking her up.

And since, according to the right, somehow marriage actualy DOESN'T have anything to do with love, there's no Biblical basis for accepting the marriage of women who are beyond child-baring age, so it shall be illegal for a woman to marry once she enters menopause.

I think that's fair enough. If we do that, then I'll not feel so bad about gays not being able to be married.

[BigDaddyLove]

2. I don't know if an anti-Divorce amendment is...........

necessary, but making it much harder to get Married would be a great idea.

[aquart]

3. WHAT "causeth her to commit adultery"?????

"Put away his wife" mean what I think it means?????????

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. It means that if a man divorces his wife,

and didn't divorce her because she was an adulterer, causes that woman to commit adultery if she ever takes up with another man, sicne the divorce is not then morally true, and they (the original man and the woman) are actually still married.

It's ovscure language, which is probably why the righties love the KJV so much, because it isn't clear, so they get to decide it what says.

But that's what it means: a man could only MORALLY divorce a woman if she committed adultery. To divorce her for any other reason would be a morally unjust action, since the man would then be making her adulterer.

In a way, it's a neat law, because it puts the stain of the sin onto the man, not the woman. Though, in a not so neat way, it's only the women who get stoned for adultery, not men, so she ends up dead. The blame goes to the guy, but she's still dead.