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Unions That Divide: Churches Split Over Gay Marriage
Published: May 13, 2012
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The faith divide resembles
what the nation experienced in the debates over slavery, said Michael Coogan, a
lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew Bible at Harvard Divinity School and the author
of “God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says.”
“The proslavery contingent
quoted the Bible repeatedly, saying that God has all these commandments about
slavery and nowhere in the Bible, including the New Testament, is it stated
that there’s anything wrong with slavery,” Mr. Coogan said. “The abolitionists
also quoted the Bible, but used the same sort of more general texts that
supporters of same-sex relationships are using: love your neighbor, treat
others as you would have them treat you, the golden rule.”
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