Fox News?

Tuesday August 31st, Hebrews 13: 4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have. Hebrews, along with Paul’s writings are often used as a proof texts to show that God is opposed to homosexuality. It is true, if you come at this with a bias against homosexual marriage, it would certainly read that way. If however you come at this text with a bias in favor of homosexual marriage, you might read it in a very different way. The writer of Hebrews and Paul do not seem too keen on the idea of homosexuality, but unlike most who oppose homosexual rights today, the basis for their understanding of human sexuality was based on a heterosexual model in which procreation was the goal. Their examples of homosexuality they were familiar with were pedophilia, prostitution or pagan idol worship. They had no concept, individually or socially, of committed long term homosexual relationships. There is also a tendency with these authors to associate other damaging elements of society as sin, with gluttony, greed and covetousness being chief among them. These are sins which we hear very little of from the pulpits of the anti-homosexual, or prejudiced churches. In our society we need to be aware of the bait and switch, churches that point the finger at homosexuality as an example of what these writers meant (which is open to considerable debate) while at the same time diverting our attention away from these authors major concerns, of which helping Christians maintain lifelong committed, healthy, and loving relationships being one. Freeing ourselves from our love of money, and all the greed, covetousness and gluttony, individually and socially, that obsessive love of money spawns, and being in favor of reform measures to reign in the excessive influence of wall street and the board rooms of multinational corporations were high on the list of issues in Paul’s writings and Hebrews. Little, if anything is heard from pulpits of conservative Christianity or the pulpits of the tea party church, fox news. (Male foxes are known as dogs or reynards, females as vixen, and young as kits, pups, or cubs. A group of foxes is a "skulk", "troop" or "earth". Typically, they live in small family groups, and are opportunistic feeders that hunt live prey. Using a pouncing technique practiced from an early age, they are usually able to kill their prey quickly. In many cultures, the fox appears in folklore as a symbol of cunning and trickery, or as a familiar animal possessed of magic powers.)