Newsweek in Hot Water Over Gay-Bible Story

Social conservatives denounce 'attack' article as 'full of holes'

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 9, 2008 8:58 AM CST

(Newser) – Social conservatives are lashing out against Newsweek’s current cover story, “The Religious Case for Gay Marriage,” for what they say is a flawed take on both the Bible and the root of their argument against such unions. The story was “yet another attack on orthodox Christianity” and “full of holes,” said the president of a conservative group. A Newsweek editor said “we welcome the debate,” Politico reports.

The article posits that the Bible isn’t so clear on gay marriage as some critics hold. But religious conservatives highlighted passages that they say make the Bible’s stance clear, such as God’s coupling of Adam and Eve; and anyway, one notes, social conservatives' arguments against gay marriage have a secular foundation and seek to define ”a civic and a social institution.”

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The December 15 issue of Newsweek's cover story is "The Religious Case for Gay Marriage," by Newsweek Religion Editor Lisa Miller. (PRNewsFoto/NEWSWEEK)

In this file photo, a gay couple holds hands as they look for a quiet spot to hold their wedding at City Hall in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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Dec 11, 2008 1:57 AM CST

Seriously? Do you have any idea how many people world wide die from shellfish allergies each year? Go ahead, look it up, I'll wait.

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Dec 11, 2008 1:57 AM CST

Think he was using sarcasm.

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Dec 11, 2008 1:54 AM CST

The problem is Separation of Church and State. If Religion is to stay out of government then government should stay out of Religion! Marriage is and has always, (been for recorded time: that includes ancient Rome and Greece, (where homosexual relations was common)) throughout the major Religions, between One Man and one Woman. It is a Sacrament, Office, or Holy Union now matter how you define it. Government should divorce, (heh, see what I did there?) itself from Marriage and instead be providing equal protection under Law for unions the need governmental assistance. That will include traditional and Non-traditional one to one unions but also say, room-mates who share property? This is not a negative Civil rights battle, it's just being fought in the wrong arena. However, I am not sure the so called Gay Lobby is not actually looking for a fight to encroach upon the beliefs of others. In which case they need to be shut down in just the same way the most Liberal State in the Union California did. And if California goes that way how do you think the rest of the Nation will go when they discover a belief system is being jammed down their throats?

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Newsweek in Hot Water Over Gay-Bible Story