So, there was a 92-yr-old lady in Bible Study this morning who was all upset about Obama supporting gay marriage, and she said he was in league with Beelzebub. I told her I thought she was listening to too much propaganda - I think it's coming from Mother Angelica's Eternal Word Television Network in Alabama.
She said it was "against God's law" for men to marry other men, and she said it says so in the Bible. I said there are a lot of laws in the Bible that don't apply to our day and age.
I had her turn to the end of Ephesians and Colossians, where St. Paul tells slaves to be obedient to their masters - which seems to be a very clear approval of slavery. I told her that maybe Paul was just not dealing with the issue of the rightness of slavery at the time - that instead the emphasis was on the respect that slaves and masters should have for each other as human beings. I think/hope that took the wind out of her sails a bit.

-Joe-