# Adam married a man.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 31, 2013, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650 "2013-08-31T09:35:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pooter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@Pooter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pooter)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/1 "2013-08-31T09:35:45Z")
[SIZE=4][FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode][SIZE=3][COLOR=blue][COLOR=darkred]Since the scriptures clearly indicates that Adam married a man in the Book of Genesis, then why all the fuss about the legality of same-sex marriages in America?[/COLOR] [/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] ---
**Author:** ![Pjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pjen)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/2 "2013-08-31T09:44:23Z")
Is this just a whoosh? Cite for Adam marrying a man! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/3 "2013-08-31T09:56:59Z")
I think he’s getting ready for a particularly lame “gotcha”. ---
**Author:** ![Pjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pjen)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/4 "2013-08-31T10:02:33Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I think he’s getting ready for a particularly lame “gotcha”. Obviously Eve would have been a man because that is the provenance of the rib from which she was made. Must be scientifically accurate! Oh, Genesis subverts most of the rest of modern scientific thought anyway Why worry! ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/5 "2013-08-31T10:22:34Z")
> [@Pooter](#): > > [SIZE=4][FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode][SIZE=3][COLOR=blue][COLOR=darkred]Since the scriptures clearly indicates that Adam married a man in the Book of Genesis, then why all the fuss about the legality of same-sex marriages in America?[/COLOR] > > [/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] This post has been browned by the brownist. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/6 "2013-08-31T10:44:21Z")
> [@Pjen](#): > > Obviously Eve would have been a man because that is the provenance of the rib from which she was made. So’s Lola… ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/7 "2013-08-31T10:47:41Z")
> [@Pooter](#): > > Since the scriptures clearly indicates that Adam married a man in the Book of Genesis, then why all the fuss about the legality of same-sex marriages in America? The scriptures say no such thing and if you want this discussion to remain open, you will put forth whatever “explanation” you may think you have very soon. (And if you want to have your opinions treated as something more serious than the musings of a pre-adolescent, you will refrain from posting in odd colors and fonts.) [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/8 "2013-08-31T10:49:12Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > This post has been browned by the brownist. :nitpick: There is no ‘brown’ in the colors available, only ‘sienna’. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/9 "2013-08-31T12:22:10Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > :nitpick: > There is no ‘brown’ in the colors available, only ‘sienna’. 😃 It’s been sienned by the siennist then. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/10 "2013-08-31T12:26:51Z")
From the book of Genesis, 2:21-24: > [@](#): > > [2:21] So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. > [2:22] And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. > [2:23] Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.” > [2:24] Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/11 "2013-08-31T13:08:43Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > From the book of Genesis, 2:24: > > Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. Nobody likes a clingy S.O. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/12 "2013-08-31T13:14:24Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > [2:24] Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. That has a definite [Thing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%281982_film%29) sound to it… ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/13 "2013-08-31T16:58:18Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > It’s been sienned by the siennist then. Whosoever hath sienned against me, him will I blot out of my book. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/14 "2013-08-31T17:02:07Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > It’s been sienned by the siennist then. Hate the sienna, not the sienner. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/15 "2013-08-31T18:49:54Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > :nitpick: > There is no ‘brown’ in the colors available, only ‘sienna’. 😃 Let he who is without sienna cast the first stone. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/16 "2013-08-31T20:54:59Z")
Go and sienna no more. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/17 "2013-08-31T20:59:07Z")
See, this is an example of why we need a “Not So Great Debates” forum. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-married-a-man/667650/18 "2013-08-31T21:51:38Z")
With twelve hours to provide an actual debate, it appears that Pooter has chosen to post and run. Thread closed.