The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #104394   Message #2140456
Posted By: PMB
04-Sep-07 - 07:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: On Same-Sex Marriages
Subject: RE: BS: On Same-Sex Marriages
Jesus on marriage: Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife

That's allowing a man to live with his wife. It is apparently mandatory, as is uxorilocality. Living with either or both of the man's parents is also specifically forbidden by this part of the New Testament. It doesn't appear to forbid, or even say anything about, women who aren't his wife, or other men, even bodhran players.

Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.

That would appear to make it compulsory for divorce court judges to be female, or if male to be satisfied that they had not been joined together by God, but by some other authority.