I found this on Reddit:
I looked up the verses and found them a little more convoluted than this man’s sign, though with the same basic message:
13 ¶ If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
14 and give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
15 then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:
16 and the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
17 and, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
19 and they shall amerce him in a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
21 then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die; because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
(King James)
13 If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her
14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,”
15 then the girl’s father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate.
16 The girl’s father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her.
17 Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town,
18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him.
19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver [b] and give them to the girl’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl’s virginity can be found,
21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.
22 If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
(New International Version)
what’s your point?
I admit, this is off topic to what I generally post. Occasionally, I get the sense that some of the more fervent social conservatives want to outlaw anything that is a biblical sin, and I thought this sign points out the absurdity of that.
(I’m neither socially conservative nor liberal. I think the social issues are none of the government’s business. They shouldn’t even know if I’m married or not, much less tax me any differently. It is only because government has made itself the supreme arbiter of marriage, education, and, increasingly, healthcare, that rival interpreters of morality are forced to fight one another. In a free society, conflicting perspectives co-exist much more peacefully.)
Incidentally, I’ve since discovered that the religious rebuttal to this goes something like this: The New Testament excuses us from Old Testament laws (minus the 10 commandments), but reasserts the sinfulness of homosexuality.
Also, there is an advertisement at the bottom of this page asking me to “restore traditional marriage in Iowa.” I’m a little confused about your politics right now.
The ads are pushed to me dynamically based on my content. I don’t get to pick them. Perhaps that one was based on the words appearing in this post.