Newsweek: “Our Mutual Joy” In Support of Marriage Equality
A lot of reaction to Newsweek’s article on gay marriage. Most of what I’ve come across is predictably critical. An annotated sampling below:
Supportive:
Shaijinx: Newsweek – Gay marriage
Suffice it to say, I just think people should be respectful of individuality, patient with differences, and stop using their personal beliefs as an excuse to be unkind. It always amazes me when I see someone being angry and judgemental and condescending while wearing a Christian cross around their neck.
Straight, Not Narrow: Newsweek features same-sex marriage…favorably!
Anyone who reads this article and still is anti-gay and anti same-sex marriage, in my opinion, just doesn’t want to get it and is more interested in pursuing their own agenda than doing what is right and accurately following the example of Jesus and what the Bible teaches us about life.
(Amen.)
“Love Will Prevail Video” from Newsweek:
Critical:
The Jewish Journal: Newsweek’s gay marriage cover story
http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/newsweeks_gay_marriage_cover_story_20081209
But to say the Bible doesn’t explicitly define marriage as between a man and a woman—I remember some story about Adam and Eve—gives “a number of excellent reasons why” gays and lesbians should be allowed to marry—that is a stretch.
National Review Online: Newsweek comes out of the closet…as a magazine with a political agenda
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGNjODViYTllYjJmNzBhNDJlZjAzNDY2OTU0ZmU1YWE=#more
While it’s true some people used Biblical arguments to justify slavery, it was Biblical arguments against slavery employed by abolitionists that won out and largely ended the practice in the Western world.
(Wow. Talk about missing the point. Really, completely missing the point.)
Politico: Newsweek draws fire on gay marriage
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16305.html
Leading social conservatives blasted Newsweek for its current cover story, “The Religious Case for Gay Marriage,” which they said misinterprets both biblical scripture and their own political movement.
GetReligion.org: Sola scriptura minus the scriptura
http://getreligion.org/?p=4204
This piece is disgusting, unfair and unworthy of a high school graduate. It is the opposite of thought-provoking. It’s a post-frontal lobotomy exegesis of Scripture. This is journalism? This is how people are supposed to cover the news, today?
Crosswalk.com: Newsweek argues the religious case for gay marriage
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/commentary/11596776
Newsweek could have offered its readers a careful and balanced review of the crucial issues related to this question. It chose another path — and published this cover story. The magazine’s readers and this controversial issue deserved better.
Renew America: On Newsweek, shellfish and gay marriage
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fischer/081211
This represents a failure to understand, in Christian thought, the profound difference between the Old Testament, or Old Covenant, and the New Testament, or New Covenant.
The Religious Researcher: Fallacies in Biblical interpretation: Newsweek’s defense of gay marriage
http://www.religiousresearcher.org/blog/?p=252
A thorough, point-by-point rebuttal to Miller’s article is beyond the scope of this post. I will content myself with documenting some of the common fallacies in biblical interpretation and theological argumentation that crop up constantly in the debate over same-sex unions and that the article exemplifies.
