Now, lest you think this only applies to same-sex relationships, consider this: Paul uses the very same language in a letter to the Corinthian church to argue that women should wear head coverings and men shouldn’t have long hair. “Judge for yourselves,” he wrote, “Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory?” (1 Corinthians 11:13–15, emphasis mine). He goes on to decry short-haired women and men with covered heads as similarly
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