This is nice for Sunday:
Jesus offered no teaching on homosexual or transsexual behavior, but did on marriage in general. That teaching was one of lifelong commitment. Human beings who are cisgendered are the most common and this teaching was expressed in terms of the most common sexual identity, with Jesus quoting the old Law he himself completed. It did not contain the assumption that those with other identities were in error. Jesus's universal message is and has always been one of love, forgiveness, and tolerance.
"Then he got up and left Galilee and went off to the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Again great crowds assembled to meet him, and again, according to his custom, he taught them. Then some Pharisees arrived to ask him this test-question. "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife?"
Jesus replied by asking them, "What has Moses commanded you to do?"
"Moses allows men to write a divorce-notice and then to dismiss her," they said.
"Moses gave you that commandment," returned Jesus, "because you know so little of the meaning of love. But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'. So that in body they are no longer two people but one. That is why man must never separate what God has joined together." (Mark 10 1-9, PHI)
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So desperately do we need a religious left!
