Queers and Christians: A M�nage � Trois

A friend in Seattle was complaining about the new law recognizing same-sex marriage in the state of Washington. My friend is Christian, so it might not surprise some people that he is troubled by such a dramatic change. Still, I was taken aback.

In his defense, sexuality has always posed special problems for Christians. The command to love one another in the here and now lives in uneasy tension with the promise of Jesus' return and the fulfillment of the Kingdom of God, in which all social relationships will be transformed in ways we can scarcely imagine. In the Gospel of Matthew, for example, Jesus says, "In the Resurrection they shall neither marry, nor be given in marriage." In the meantime, those who can should become "eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven." But he adds that many cannot embrace a life without sex, and Paul puts the matter bluntly when writing to the Corinthians: "better to marry than to burn."

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