So-called “protesters” heckled Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-South Bend, Indiana) a couple of days ago. They say Pete Buttigieg should repent because homosexuality is a sin. The Bible says so, right?
The phrase they used, “Marriage is between a man and a woman,” does not appear in the Bible. At least none of the parts I’ve read. Someone please cite the chapter and verse where it says that.
Our own Blue York makes the good point that the hecklers are not protesters:
I disagree with calling these people ... protesters. One protests policies or laws or public actions. This is, essentially, hate speech. … They are not protesting. Call it what it is — Hate Speech.
However, how come those “protesters” don’t go to Trump rallies and “protest” Trump’s adultery, lies, thefts and many other sins and crimes? Right, I forgot, because they don’t actually care about the Bible specifically or morality in general.
Some of the more extreme homophobes go so far as to say that marriage is between one man and one woman. And since Ivana Zelníčková is still alive, shouldn’t Donald Trump’s subsequent marriages to Marla Maples and Melania Knauss be considered invalid?
However, the Bible seems quite a bit more concerned with wives cheating on their husbands than the other way around.
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. — Romans 7:2-3
It takes more serious mental gymnastics to ignore Donald Trump cheating on Melania with Stormy Daniels, and then having his lawyer pay her $130,000 to keep quiet. But so-called “evangelicals” are perfectly willing to do those mental gymnastics.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. — Proverbs 5:3-14.
That’s from the King James Version. Other translations say “prostitute” instead of “strange woman.” I feel more comfortable calling Stormy Daniels a “strange woman” than calling her a “prostitute.” Either way, the Bible urges men to avoid her, not chase her.
Since we’re supposed to have separation of church and state, Trump’s numerous crimes should be more concerning to us than his numerous sins.
But anyone who pretends to be a Christian supporter of Trump should be confronted with the notion that Donald Trump committed adultery before he said even one word to Stormy Daniels.
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. — Matthew 5:28
Taking this very literally, it’s not a concern for Pete Buttigieg. In any case, I think Buttigieg’s one marriage will last longer than any of Trump’s.