All of the “anti-gay” letters of this section on March 3, with one exception, seek to impose scriptural laws upon Gentile Christians, a/k/a the “strong in faith.” But the Council of Jerusalem settled this for all time by granting the Gentile Christians independence of the law and admonishing them merely not to offend Jews whom the Jerusalem Church hoped to convert. This church was destroyed in the Roman rampage in Jerusalem in 70. Hence those who are “weak in faith” and who claim a degree of self righteousness through adherence to some rule beyond the golden, e.g., no homosexual contact, have no authority to limit the freedom of these strong in faith who are secure in their intention to incorporate the golden rule in their very psyche, and who defer to the weaker in faith merely by not flaunting this their freedom, e.g., not eating blood sausage in their presence.
The one exception deals with divorce. No union, be it a marriage of a man and a woman or a monastery of several men or women, can achieve the closeness of “one flesh”, i.e., shared consciousness, unless there is a trust which leads to utter openness between them. But this is impossible if there is even the possibility of divorce. It is hardly surprising therefore and indeed thoroughly logical that Jesus would condemn divorce so severely. What is surprising is that most people who quote scripture to condemn homosexuality ignore the scriptural condemnations of divorce and remarriage.
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