O casamento anti-bíblico

A Bíblia é fértil em retratar formas de casamento que nada têm a ver com o conceito moderno do mesmo. São vários os exemplos de poligamia, incesto e infidelidade ao longo do vários livros, tanto no Antigo como no Novo Testamento. A objecção feita à homossexualidade na Bíblia é o principal argumento de muitos cristãos conservadores que se opõem ao casamento homossexual.

Numa tentativa de validação desses argumentos, Lisa Miller da Newsweek, escreveu a peça de capa da edição de 6 de Dezembro com o título “Our Mutual Joy“.

Deixo-vos aqui, como aperitivo, os primeiros e os últimos parágrafos do artigo em causa:

“Let’s try for a minute to take the religious conservatives at their word and define marriage as the Bible does. Shall we look to Abraham, the great patriarch, who slept with his servant when he discovered his beloved wife Sarah was infertile? Or to Jacob, who fathered children with four different women (two sisters and their servants)? Abraham, Jacob, David, Solomon and the kings of Judah and Israel-all these fathers and heroes were polygamists. The New Testament model of marriage is hardly better. Jesus himself was single and preached an indifference to earthly attachments-especially family. The apostle Paul (also single) regarded marriage as an act of last resort for those unable to contain their animal lust. “It is better to marry than to burn with passion,” says the apostle, in one of the most lukewarm endorsements of a treasured institution ever uttered. Would any contemporary heterosexual married couple-who likely woke up on their wedding day harboring some optimistic and newfangled ideas about gender equality and romantic love-turn to the Bible as a how-to script?

Of course not, yet the religious opponents of gay marriage would have it be so.”

E o último parágrafo “reza” assim:

“More basic than theology, though, is human need. We want, as Abraham did, to grow old surrounded by friends and family and to be buried at last peacefully among them. We want, as Jesus taught, to love one another for our own good-and, not to be too grandiose about it, for the good of the world. We want our children to grow up in stable homes. What happens in the bedroom, really, has nothing to do with any of this. My friend the priest James Martin says his favorite Scripture relating to the question of homosexuality is Psalm 139, a song that praises the beauty and imperfection in all of us and that glorifies God’s knowledge of our most secret selves: “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” And then he adds that in his heart he believes that if Jesus were alive today, he would reach out especially to the gays and lesbians among us, for “Jesus does not want people to be lonely and sad.” Let the priest’s prayer be our own.”

Para terminar, e já que estamos a abordar o tema do casamento homossexual, fica também um vídeo produzido pela Newsweek – Is gay the new black? – que aborda a legitimidade da comparação da luta por direitos iguais para os homossexuais com a luta travada nos anos 60 pela comunidade afro-americana.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yk7ifzueSE[/video]

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