Divorceé Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson apparently believes in biblical double standards. According to a local constituent, the Bible really means what it says in condemning gays, but not in condemning
divorceés who remarry.
And, as blogger Michael Petrelis jogged my memory, who can forget about the rampant adultery of presidential brother Neil Bush? Surely, not his "defend the family" presidential brother?
Ah, it's nice to be Neil Bush.
When you're Neil Bush, you'll be sitting in a hotel room in Thailand or Hong Kong, minding your own business, when suddenly there's a knock at the door. You answer it and a comely woman strolls in and has sex with you.
Just how much fun was revealed in a deposition taken last March, during Bush's very nasty divorce battle. Asked by his wife's attorney whether he'd had any extramarital affairs, Bush told the story of his Asian hotel room escapades.
We know what the Religious Right says the Bible says about homosexuality, but what about adultery? Answer below the fold.
As Mark 10:12 says about remarriage:
If a woman divorce her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.
Sounds pretty clear to me, Kay. Perhaps you had your cheerleading outfit wrapped around your ears the last time that passage was read in your church.
Oh, let's not forget that in the Torah that Jesus reportedly would have been familiar with (that's Old Testament to you, Kay), the penalty for adultery is death by stoning.
Leviticus 20:10:
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife ... both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
(Leviticus 20:3 specifies stoning for another offense, so one would assume stoning would be the type of death here.)
(At the same time, "liberal Christians" should note that we have a Jesus here who obviously wasn't all about sweetness and light.)