Lael ArringtonWhy the Biblical Defense of Traditional Marriage is NOT like the “Biblical” Defense of Slavery – Lael Arrington https://laelarrington.com Faith and Culture: Live Wisely Love Well Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:15:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 73081510 Why the Biblical Defense of Traditional Marriage is NOT like the “Biblical” Defense of Slavery https://laelarrington.com/2015/03/why-the-biblical-defense-of-traditional-marriage-is-not-like-the-biblical-defense-of-slavery/ https://laelarrington.com/2015/03/why-the-biblical-defense-of-traditional-marriage-is-not-like-the-biblical-defense-of-slavery/#respond Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:15:14 +0000 admin http://laelarrington.com/?p=866 “Evangelicals will more or less come to embrace homosexuality in the next 20 to 30 years,” Jeremy Thomas, professor of Sociology at Idaho State University, predicts. “I would put all my money on that statement.”

They will “grow out of” their disapproval of homosexuality and gay marriage. Just like they like they “grew out of” their approval of slavery based on race. So goes the conventional wisdom.

Bible Defense of Slavery
But there is a vast gulf between the “Biblical” argument to defend slavery and the “Biblical” argument to defend homosexuality and gay marriage. In order to defend the enslavement of blacks based on race, white Southern antebellum preachers had to resort to a tortured theological construct. How tortured?

When we stand before God I would not want to be Josiah Priest (1788-1861). His Bible Defense of Slavery (1843) twisted Scripture and the minds of thousands and helped launch the civil war. For those who equate the “Biblical” defense of slavery to the “Biblical” defense of traditional marriage: read just how tortured…

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