No one is saying that. You’re confused because you think the claim that gay sex is a sin holds water.

The point of the argument about applicability of Christian love is not really about getting over not the sin claim (which is Biblically problematic) but against the prurient faux and selective prudery that antigay people create out of Paul’s generalized prudery.

If you want only feel-good love without discipline, don’t appeal to Christianity.

In mature Christianity love is a high and suffering kind of love. No one says otherwise. But is it not strange how the antigay sorts refuse to suffer for what they love, and do not love what they suffer for?

The words, examples, and life of Jesus the Christ, as reported in the Gospels, teach us how to live lives of inclusive love and abundant welcome for all of God’s children; especially those who have been legally, spiritually or by culture and tradition marginalized and oppressed in society (as found in the story of “Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the Well”, John 4:1-42).

The reason that Christ and other Jews looked down on the woman was PRIMARILY because she was a SAMARITAN, who were considered, even by Jesus, lower than dogs. Jesus asked the woman to go and bring back her husband. She responded that she didn’t have a husband and he told her that she was telling the truth because she had had five husbands and the man whe was living with now was not her husband. He went on to tell her about the “water of life” with ONE SINGLE TIME condemning her, shaming her or even telling her to repent and become a hateful, judgemental, obnoxious proselytyzer in order to become a good Christian. All the scripture says is that she went away and told the other Samaritans about what he had told her and because of this many were drawn to him and followed him even though it was COMPLETELY contrary to the culture, religion and traditions of the day.

The point was that even Jesus looked down upon her until she asked him “do not even dogs deserve compassion? Even Jesus had to grow and turn away from prejudices that he, the self proclaimed lord and saviour of the world, had learned through the cultural, traditional and religious indoctrinations in his society that he was brought up with.

I think the story of the woman at the well is more about what JESUS learned from the Samaritan woman than it is about what the woman learned from him.

Take the woman at the well, for example, which the article uses for support. Yes, Jesus did love her despite her sins and misplaced beliefs but the conversation is clear that Jesus does not approve either.

You (and Miller) may want to be cautious with this Scriptural reference. While “go and sin no more” is perhaps the favorite verse to those who most align Christianity with adherence to (selected) Levitical commandments, it is also the least historically sound.

The Pericope Adulterae (the story of the woman at the well) is believed by many scholars to have not become part of the Scripture until the fourth century and it was unlikely to have been written by the author of the Gospel of John (or the Gospel of Luke, where the story found itself in some texts).

Hey, you think we should write to those No Mob Veto guys? Maybe they can speak up for her, after all, they have committed themselves to exposing and publicly shaming anyone who resorts to the rhetoric of anti-religious bigotry — against any faith, on any side of any cause, for any reason.

They got to have something to say about this, right?

Also, I found it very funny that the commentators on the article online wasted no time in illustrating a minor but important point in the article: “Religious objections to gay marriage are rooted not in the Bible at all, then, but in custom and tradition (and, to talk turkey for a minute, a personal discomfort with gay sex that transcends theological argument).”

Look at how many of the “disagree” comments talk about anal sex, the anus, or poop. It’s unbelievable.

The older I get, the less convinced I am that the Bible cares much about sexuality at all. It’s there, it often messes up things, the messes have to be dealt with, but it is fairly incidental. It’s process, not event.