No Scriptures = No Limits

This week in an interview publicizing his new book, former President Jimmy Carter spoke about the role of his faith and religion to his life. The interviewer, Marc Hill, and President Carter had this exchange:

Carter:  I think everyone should have a right to get married…those partners should be able to get married.  That’s no problem… 

Hill:  Would Jesus approve gay marriage?

Carter:  I believe Jesus would. I don't have any verse in scripture… 

Hill:  No, no, no, but intuitively, yeah…

Carter:  ...I believe Jesus would approve gay marriage, but that's just my own personal belief. I think Jesus would encourage any love affair if it was honest and sincere and was not damaging to anyone else, and I don't see that gay marriage damages anyone else.    (www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/07/jimmy-carter-gay-marriage_n_7744390.html)

Both President Carter and his interviewer readily agree that there is absolutely NO SCRIPTURE at all to support gay marriage. Carter, who had just said in the interview that he regularly teaches Sunday School at his local church, admits it before he even asked about it.  The interviewer tries to help him his position by asserting that it’s not even necessary to have scriptures on your side, since it’s something that one just knows “intuitively.”

Carter not only agrees that scripture isn’t needed for it, but affirms that “any love affair” must be fine with Jesus so long as it is “honest, sincere and not harmful.” On this basis would any fornication or sin, agreeably entered into, be wrong? When you approve things without scripture, there are no limits.