"No matter what one thinks about gay rights—for, against or somewhere in between —this conservative resort to biblical authority is the worst kind of fundamentalism,"
"Given the history of the making of the Scriptures and the millennia of critical attention scholars and others have given to the stories and injunctions that come to us in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament, to argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt—it is unserious, and unworthy of the great Judeo-Christian tradition."
This is part of the editorial statement from Jon Meacham following an article entitled "Gay Marriage: Our Mutual Joy."
This is where the whole Prop 8/Homosexual marriage thing is headed: To do away with the authority of the Bible. The media is trying with all its might to dismiss the Bible as a book of inspirational ideas, and if/when the day comes that they do, we better be ready for a healthy dose of persecution. Persecution that we have thankfully been spared from thus far by living in a country with freedom of religion.
Albert Mohler disects this article further on his blog. I'd encourage you to read it HERE. Living for the glory of God means holding to his Word as our ultimate authority, and that means not backing down from blatant attacks like the one in this article.
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