Have you guys seen the article on gay marriage in Newsweek? The one where Christians are beat up by a woman who lacks a basic understanding of the Bible or counts on the fact that her readers do. The one where she makes assertions that are so easily refuted, like this:

First, while the Bible and Jesus say many important things about love and family, neither explicitly defines marriage as between one man and one woman.

Um…you mean like this:

Matthew 19:4 “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

That seems pretty explicit, don’t you think? Shouldn’t an editor have caught that one before they published they article?
And when you think about all that Paul has written on the flesh, this is pretty laughable:

The apostle Paul echoed the Christian Lord’s lack of interest in matters of the flesh. For him, celibacy was the Christian ideal, but family stability was the best alternative.

It was Paul who demonstrates that the prohibitions against homosexuality were still in effect:

Romans 1:26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

I could go on and on but I have to study for my exam. Ken Shepherd takes a few whacks as does Mollie at Got Religion? Check them out if you want to see the article get the evisceration it so richly deserves.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised but it’s really shocking the level of ignorance of the subject this article exhibited. It is easy enough to get a Christian theologian to explain the Bible’s view on homosexuality so she’s not setting up a straw man. I know that it’s easier to debate a straw man, you can win the argument every time but you’ve proved nothing.
I wonder about the standards at the magazine. If they get it so wrong on a subject that is so easy to verify, what are they getting wrong on subjects that are much more complicated? I don’t usually read Newsweek but I think I’ll stay clear of it from now on and get a second source before I believe anything they say. Obviously their editors don’t care what kind of garbage they run as their cover story. A magazine that shows so little respect for their readers deserves to be abandoned.