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You Won’t Believe How The Bible Actually Defines Marriage (HINT: It’s Not ‘One Man And One Woman.’) (Original Post) donheld Mar 2013 OP
Good ol' Betty Bowers says it so much more thoroughly than I Hekate Mar 2013 #1

Hekate

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1. Good ol' Betty Bowers says it so much more thoroughly than I
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 02:53 AM
Mar 2013

I usually mutter about Jacob, Leah and Rachel (and Bilhah and Zilpah)
Abraham and Sarah (and Keturah and Hagar and Masek)
Lot and his daughters
The innumerable wives and concubines of King David and King Solomon
The law requiring a man whose brother has died without heir to marry the widow

The homophobes and their enabling politicians who keep nattering on (and on and on) about traditional marriage and biblical marriage have obviously never actually read The Bible -- rather like my fundy ex-son in law.

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