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Jon Meacham
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subju
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The quotation points out that using the Bible to justify traditional views on marriage can be inconsistent because the same approach could also be used to claim that unrelated practices like lending money or certain hairstyles are sinful. This challenges the idea that biblical authority clearly supports one specific definition of marriage without also implying many other questionable rules.
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