National apostasy? My heavens - it certainly happened at least once in my own family, many generations ago when one of my forebears married his dead wife's younger sister. And we have the family tree to prove it! But shouldn't it cut both ways? Ancient Jewish practice ritualised the widow marrying the dead husband's brother, to produce a heir, did it not? Sauce for the goose - etc
What a wonderful, unusual angle on this difficult subject. Great to read it on the day when a friend told me that his vicar (one of the vicars of our local team) spent a 40-minute sermon telling her congregation why she would refuse to bless same-sex couples. We need some sanity sometimes.
National apostasy? My heavens - it certainly happened at least once in my own family, many generations ago when one of my forebears married his dead wife's younger sister. And we have the family tree to prove it! But shouldn't it cut both ways? Ancient Jewish practice ritualised the widow marrying the dead husband's brother, to produce a heir, did it not? Sauce for the goose - etc
What a wonderful, unusual angle on this difficult subject. Great to read it on the day when a friend told me that his vicar (one of the vicars of our local team) spent a 40-minute sermon telling her congregation why she would refuse to bless same-sex couples. We need some sanity sometimes.