Possible Constitutional Amendments

...that codify all marriages entirely on biblical principles:

1. Marriage in the United States of America shall consist of a union between one man and one or more women. (Gen. 29:17-28, 2 Sam. 3:2-5)

2. Marriage shall not impede a man's right to take concubines in addition to his wife or wives. (2 Sam. 5:13, 1 Kings 11:3, 2 Chron. 11:21)

3. A marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is not a virgin, she shall be executed. (Deut. 22:13-21)

4. Marriage of a believer and a non-believer shall be forbidden. (Gen 24:3, Num 25:1-9, Ezra 9:12, Neh. 10:30)

5. Since marriage is for life, neither the US Constitution nor any state law shall permit divorce. (Deut. 22:19, Mark 19:9-12)

6. If a married man dies without children, his brother must marry the widow. If the brother refuses to marry the widow, or deliberately does not give her children, he shall pay a fine of one shoe and be otherwise punished in a manner to be determined by law. (Gen. 38:6-10, Deut. 25:5-10)

7. In lieu of marriage (if there are no acceptable men to be found), a woman shall (may) get her father drunk and have sex with him. (Gen. 19:31-36)

***
What makes this list sweet to me was that it was given to me by one of the very old and very wise matriarchs in our sister congregation, a Lutheran Church.

In any event, its crazy how we can use the Bible to justify all sorts of things- and how we can use it to either support what we like or don't like. As you can see, proof-texting is seldom a good idea; the above list gives us an example as to why.