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Morality

"Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female. And said. For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
               Matthew 19:4-6

"Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
               Matthew 19:19

"He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me."
               Matthew 10:37

In response to woman "Blessed is the womb that bare thee and the paps which thou hast sucked"
"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your father, which is in heaven."
               Matthew 23:9

When told his mother and brothers were seeking an audience:
"Who is my mother, or my brethern?"

Also in Luke when told the same
"My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it."
               Luke 8:21

Then seeing those in his presence,
"Behold, my mother and my brethern! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and my mother."
               Mark 3:32-35

When asked by a disciple for leave to attend his father's funeral
"Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead."
               Matthew 8:22

My paraphrase: "Sure, love your father, mother, brothers, sisters, neighbors, all good people, niggers, honkeys, spics, murders, sinners, and saints, each as the other, no more, no less. Because they have pretty much the same brain, hormones, DNA, marvelous chemical factory, and thoughts of good and evil and infinity as you do and I do, that's part of what "following me" means, I suspect. However, even the funeral of your father should not deter you from the way. By the way, marriage is sacred if it produces children, life."