Opinion of Matthew 5:28

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The suggestion that leering at someone is literally morally tantamount to adultery is probably hyperbole, but it's definitely not a good thing to do, and more straight men could stand to take that to heart. The idea that this verse is meant to impose obligations on women rather than on men is of course absolutely ridiculous and worthy of no serious consideration.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Those that do support same sex marriage, and therefore bring same sex couples into the same covenant, I've never heard of them not applying the same standards and expectations of monogamy and mutual respect to same sex couples.

I'm tired of people 'berating' gays for not being monogamous, or having multiple partners when society did everything it could to discourage us from settling down and offering nothing to those who did while allowing straights not only marriage and tax benefits but 'privacy' in that marriage to be monogamous or in some cases not, and also offer easy divorce.

Wow. I’m not “berating gays”.... I’m saying that “leftist Christians” (to the extent I believe faith and politics are sadly intertwined) often dismiss even the concept of morality because it’s something proposed by the Religious Right.

I didn't say you were I also fail to see why affirming churches that allow for same sex marriage would not uphold the moral standards expected in marriage. Do you have any examples?

I have anecdotal examples of church environments (closer to the BRTD end of the progressive-Christianity spectrum than the TEC/ELCA end, although I definitely wouldn't say this is common enough to be characteristic of hipster Christianity as I've encountered it) in which an expectation of fidelity and monogamy wasn't really being upheld for anybody, but not of ones in which it was upheld for straight couples but not for gay couples.