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March 04, 2004
Fight fire with fire?
Occasionally, someone forwards an email to me that's actually worth reading. This one made me chuckle. I don't know who to credit.
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The Presidential Prayer Team is urging us to "Pray for the President as he seeks wisdom to legally codify the definition of marriage. Pray that it will be according to Biblical principles. With many forces insisting on variant definitions of marriage, pray that God's Word and His standards will be honored by our government."
In support of the Prayer Team's goals, here is a proposed Constitutional Amendment codifying marriage entirely on biblical principles:
A. Marriage in the United States shall consist of a union between one man and one or more women (Genesis 29:17-28; II Samuel 3:2-5).
B. Marriage shall not impede a man's right to take concubines in addition to his wife or wives (II Samuel 5:13; I Kings 11:3; II Chronicles 11:21).
C. Marriage shall be valid only if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is not a virgin, she shall be executed by stoning. (Deuteronomy 22:13-21).
D. Marriage of a believer and a nonbeliever shall be forbidden (Genesis 24:3; Numbers 25:1-9; Ezra 9:12; Nehemiah 10:30).
E. Since marriage is for life, no state or federal law shall permit divorce. (Deuteronomy 22:19; Mark 10:9).
F. If a married man dies childless, his brother shall marry the widow. If he refuses to marry his brother's widow or deliberately does not give her children, he shall pay a fine of one shoe and be otherwise punished in a manner to be determined by law (Genesis 38:6-10; Deuteronomy 25:5-10).
G. If there are no marriageable men in a young woman's town, she must get her father drunk and have sex with him (even if he previously offered her to men as a sex toy), tag-teaming with any sisters she may have (Genesis
19:31-36).
If you have other Biblical injunctions to add to this list, please share them with the Presidential Prayer Team: http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org
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Have a nice day. =)
Posted by SunSword at March 4, 2004 01:26 AM
Comments
Bravo! Beautiful. Reminded me of that infamous "Dr. Laura" scene from The West Wing. I'm gonna steal and repost. :)
Posted by: GreyPawn at March 6, 2004 03:13 PM
Hmm, which Bible translation was it that had `tag teaming' in it again? :)
Posted by: Doug McLaren at March 15, 2004 03:38 PM
I suppose the answer is, "most"?
I believe it's referring to this:
"30 Lot went up from Zoar, and stayed in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31 Then the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of the earth.
32 "Come, let R510 us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our family through our father."
33 So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
34 On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our family through our father."
35 So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
36 Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
37 The firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
38 As for the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day."
Taken from The New American Standard Bible.
You can read it here.
http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?passage=ge+19&version=nas&language=en&showtools=0
Posted by: SunSword at March 16, 2004 12:00 AM
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