I'm referring to divorce as Jesus defined it.. with "just-cause" being a very thin list. Accordingly, anyone who divorces outside the list is an adulterer, and anyone who marries such a person is also an adulterer. Adultery is one of the Big Ten no-nos whereas homosexuality isn't mentioned at all. Yet Churches are filled with all manner of adulterers, yet doesn't seem to warrant a blip, whereas homosexuality seems to bring people out in savage droves. Why is that? Because it's convenient and hypocritical. ![Smiley :)](http://www.getbig.com/boards/Smileys/classic/smiley.gif)
Deedee, you are right. Jesus never mentioned homosexuality, but he did mention adultery. And Jesus did say that if a person divorces and re-marries, that person and the person he/she marries commit adultery, something that many Christians do over and over without any guilt. Many Christian ministers would refuse to marry a same sex couple, but some of those same ministers would not refuse to marry couples where one or both have been divorced before, thus these ministers are helping these couples commit adultery by Jesus' definition.
Homosexuality, as you said, is not addressed specifically within the 10 commandments, but adultery is.
Yes, I agree with you Deedee! We Christians can be very hypocritical sometimes. I agree with Straw Man too, that those Christians who put so much time and energy into opposing same sex marriage, should put just as much, if not more time and energy into getting divorce banned, at least within the Christian church. Or they should at least show more opposition to Christian ministers marrying couples who have been divorced, since Biblically that is a sin. I'm no fan of the Roman Catholic Church, but they do a much better job at opposing divorce and re-marriage of divorced couples than we Protestants do.