I read, with interest and bemusement, N. Stanton Platt’s July 12 letter to the editor, “‘Known’ facts can mislead.” Platt states, correctly, that the Biblical edict that marriage is between one man and one woman didn’t even last until the end of Genesis, Chapter 4. I believe, however, that he confuses the intention of God with the intransigence of Man.
When answering a question from the Pharisees, Jesus made it clear that God has not changed His mind about marriage (Mark 10:2-9). The Pharisees asked Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” testing Him. He answered, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.” And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart, he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’ For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
I am sorry that Platt had a third-grade teacher who misled him into believing something that was not true, but there is no misleading here.
Adam Jackson
Brush Prairie
