Re: Ok you want serious?
Submitted by Robert-I on 2010-09-1 23:20:24, Wednesday
In reply to Ok you want serious? submitted by JohnQ on 2010-08-31 19:21:54, Tuesday
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The passage doesn't apply to same-sex marriage at all, because it establishes a relationship of gender-based subordination (though with beneficent concessions, of course). The idea of two Christs or two churches just over-extends the symbolism of this passage into someplace it was never fit to go. I'm not sure how literally the passage is taken anyways. Most of the Orthodox people I know are Coptic, and that's as much a matriarchy as any culture I've encountered, despite the all-male clergy. |
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