How many times have you heard some variation of this phrase: “Jesus never said anything about gay ‘marriage'”?
Sometimes it is presented in bombastic or obnoxious fashion. “Let’s review everything Jesus had to say about gay ‘marriage.'” The speaker then pauses for dramatic effect before saying, “Nothing.”
Actually, that’s a lie—which Gov. Mike Huckabee exposed on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program on Wednesday morning.
When told that Jesus explicitly condemned divorce—which Kim Davis partook of before she became a born again Christian—and had relatively little to say about same-sex “marriage,” Huckabee brought His Biblical knowledge to bear on Joe Scarborough.
“Let me challenge the idea that He never spoke about marriage, because He did,” Huckabee said. “Homosexual ‘marriage’ was not an issue in the first century. There was no push for same-sex ‘marriage’ when Jesus was teaching. But what He did say was, ‘A man shall leave his father and mother, and a woman shall leave her home, and the two shall be one flesh.'”
Jesus said this in Matthew 19:5 and Mark 10:7. He was quoting Genesis 2:24—the Scripture that describes the nature, origin, and purpose of marriage, rooted in the complementarity of the two distinct biological sexes—and was, in turn, quoted by the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 5:31.
“So, when people say, ‘Jesus never talked about same-sex marriage,’ He did by virtue of talking about what marriage is,” Huckabee said.
