It is true as Nelda Westerlind writes that it takes a male and a female to produce children. However I must disagree with Nelda when she follows her statement with “Now we are supposed to learn that he, she and it is the proper way.”
I find it amusing that Nelda thinks that the new law on same sex marriage in Minnesota was meant to redirect nature’s way of procreating.
I welcome the new law in as much as it redefines marriage as a legal – not religious – contractual relationship between two human beings regardless of sexual orientation. Speaking of marriage, Vance Benedix claims that the U.S. Supreme Court, and hence its laws, are subject to and supervised by the central lawgiver Moses and the Ten Commandments. While I respect the Ten Commandments for their insight into the way a society should order itself, I disagree when it comes to accepting them as inspired by God and therefor unalterable. It would be well if Vance would read his Bible in the proper context.
The god Moses is referring to is the tribal god of the Israelite tribe. At the time of Moses there were many different gods venerated by different Semitic tribes. Moses’s Yahweh was only one of them. One may infer this from reading what Yahweh states in the first commandment: “Do not worship any other god but me.”
It is also well to recall that years before Moses, marriage was sanctioned as a union of a man and many wives.
Think of Jacob who gave his name to the people, Israel, after an altercation with what is believed to be his god. Also recall David who came many years after Moses and who had many wives. One may wonder who reconciled these institutions with the regulations of Moses that by the way do not say anything about marriage.
Jake Hjorth
Grand Marais
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