LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Newsweek magazine, one of the most influential news magazines in America, has decided to come out for "same-sex marriage" in a big way, and to do so by means of a biblical and theological argument. In its latest cover story, "The Religious Case for Gay Marriage," Newsweek religion editor Lisa Miller offers a revisionist argument for the acceptance of "same-sex marriage." It is fair to say that Newsweek has gone for broke on this question.
Miller begins with a lengthy dismissal of the Bible's relevance to the question of marriage in the first place. "Let's try for a minute to take the religious conservatives at their word and define marriage as the Bible does," Miller suggests. If so, she argues that readers will find a confusion of polygamy, strange marital practices and worse....