same-sex marriage

occupation / innovator as

journalist

historian

scientific organization

Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art

nationality

American

biographer

editor-in-chief

Phi Beta Kappa Society

 and Markers

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university professor

Vanderbilt Department of Political Science

is poorly argued against when the arguments are based on biblical authority. Such arguments face the insurmountable problem that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the lord.

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord. Jon Meacham

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