New law students will likely all face this problem at least a few times in a course, so be willing to
lean on other law students for support, too.
In the now famous Goodridge case, the Court
leaned critically
on the insistence that procreation is not a requirement of marriage, and that the
laws on marriage «do not privilege procreative heterosexual intercourse between married people above every
other form of adult intimacy.»
I
lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many
others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with
other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused
on internal holiness and not
on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the
Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists
on impartiality in the way we bless
others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».