Genesis 1:28 and Same-Sex Marriage

Genesis 1:28 and Same-Sex Marriage

I recently had someone quote Genesis 1:28 to me as though it were an argument against gays and lesbians being allowed to marry, since they cannot fulfill what it commands. This is how I replied:

If you are referring to reproduction, then they have the same options available to them that infertile heterosexual couples have. If you are referring to ruling over the fish, I haven’t figured out how to do that yet myself…

Genesis 1:28, in case you don’t know it, reads:

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Jesus on a Fish


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