Reading Simon’s piece, I get the impression he thinks of same-sex marriage as either/or. Either same-sex couples get married in large numbers or opposite-sex couples do. He writes as if the existence of same-sex marriage is doing something to stop opposite-sex marriage.
That’s the only way anything he writes makes sense, and then only marginally.
I think he’s just in a panic that his ideas of the Bible as a marriage manual are not accepted by most people. Of course, if we all took the Bible literally about what it says about marriage, the institution wouldn’t look anything like what exists today.
I think real Biblical marriage would shock Simon. In the meantime, I think he can get over the fact that a few same-sex couples get married sometimes.
P.S. Dan Foster’s article about what Biblical marriage really looks like is a must-read.
