WaPo/Newsweek ‘On Faith’ Publishes Item Aimed at ‘Debunking’ Notion of ‘Biblical Marriage’
On Monday I noted how Newsweek religion writer Lisa Miller uncritically peddled the work of two religion scholars who argue that the Bible is not as restrictive on sexual mores as it's widely understood to be. Yesterday, On Faith, a joint project of the Washington Post and Newsweek, granted one of those scholars, Boston University's Jennifer Wright Knust, what appears to be the first of a series of columns devoted to “Why the Bible can't dictate today's sexual morals.” Knust's February 8 column aimed to debunk “biblical marriage” (emphasis mine): Let's begin with an easy target: “biblical marriage.” Despite frequent claims to the contrary, not a single biblical book endorses marriage between one man and one woman for the purposes of procreation. Really? Knust is entitled to that position, although it's difficult to see how the BU religion professor arrived at that conclusion.
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on February 9, 2011. Filed under