You have danced around the issues of how the Bible handles same sex relationships. Other than the Scriptures than condemns such relationships it is silent on those types of relationships.
Gay apologists use the fact that Hebrew is not a precise language to establish a gay relationship between David and Jonathon. What is interesting is that when Jews translated the Hebrew into Greek in the Septuagint this ambiguity was corrected.
The covenant David made with Jonathon had nothing to do with a "marriage" covenant. The fact David was betrothed to Saul's daughter Michel made David Saul's son-in-law according to Jewish custom even before the marriage was consummated.
1 Samuel 18:17-19
17 Then Saul said to David, "Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife, only be a valiant man for me and fight the Lord's battles." For Saul thought, "My hand shall not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him." 18 But David said to Saul, "Who am I, and what is my life or my father's family in Israel, that I should be the king's son-in-law?" 19 So it came about at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife. NAS
Saul did not follow through with his promise of marriage between Merab and David, so although the marriage was not consummated the betrothal was the first time David was Saul’s “son-in-law”.
1 Sam 18:20-29
20 Now Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David. When they told Saul, the thing was agreeable to him. 21 And Saul thought, "I will give her to him that she may become a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David, "For a second time you may be my son-in-law today." 22 Then Saul commanded his servants, "Speak to David secretly, saying, 'Behold, the king delights in you, and all his servants love you; now therefore, become the king's son-in-law.'" 23 So Saul's servants spoke these words to David. But David said, "Is it trivial in your sight to become the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?" 24 And the servants of Saul reported to him according to these words which David spoke. 25 Saul then said, "Thus you shall say to David, 'The king does not desire any dowry except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king's enemies.'" Now Saul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26 When his servants told David these words, it pleased David to become the king's son-in-law. Before the days had expired 27 David rose up and went, he and his men, and struck down two hundred men among the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. So Saul gave him Michal his daughter for a wife. 28 When Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him, 29 then Saul was even more afraid of David. Thus Saul was David's enemy continually. NAS
This is the second incident where David was betrothed to a daughter of Saul and the second time David is referred to as a “son-in-law”. So if Saul recognized the relationship between David and Jonathon as a marriage David would be Saul’s “son-in-law” three times not twice.
1 Sam 20:30-34
30 Then Saul's anger burned against Jonathan and he said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you are choosing the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness? 31 "For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Therefore now, send and bring him to me, for he must surely die." 32 But Jonathan answered Saul his father and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?" 33 Then Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him down; so Jonathan knew that his father had decided to put David to death. 34 Then Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did not eat food on the second day of the new moon, for he was grieved over David because his father had dishonored him. NAS
What this does show is that if Saul viewed his son’s relationship with David as a marriage he did not approve of the “affair”. Now when you consider this section of Scripture in its full context Saul is angry with Jonathon for allowing David to be absent from the new moon ceremony because Saul intended on killing David. Saul viewed David as a threat to his throne and his dynasty, which would deprive Jonathan of the throne.
1 Samuel 20:40-41
41 When the lad was gone, David rose from the south side and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed three times. And they kissed each other and wept together, but David more. NAS
The KJ translates this verse:
1 Samuel 20:41
41 And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded. KJV
The Hebrew word translated “exceeded” is:
OT:1431
gadal (gaw-dal'); a primitive root; properly, to twist [compare OT:1434], i.e. to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride):
KJV - advance, boast, bring up, exceed, excellent, be (-come, do, give, make, wax), great (-er, come to ... estate, + things), grow (up), increase, lift up, magnify (-ifical), be much set by, nourish (up), pass, promote, proudly [spoken], tower.
(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)
OT:1431
gadal --
to grow, to become great or important, to promote, to make powerful, to praise, to magnify, to do great things
a) (Qal)
1) to grow up
2) to become great
3) to be magnified
b) (Piel)
1) to cause to grow
2) to make great, to make powerful
3) to magnify
c) (Pual) to be brought up
d) (Hiphil)
1) to make great
2) to magnify
3) to do great things
e) (Hithpael) to magnify oneself
(from The Online Bible Thayer's Greek Lexicon and Brown Driver & Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, Copyright (c)1993, Woodside Bible Fellowship, Ontario, Canada. Licensed from the Institute for Creation Research.)
To interpret this word to mean “erection” in this one verse is ludicrous.
What the Apostolic Restoration Mission has proven is that the KJV is not a good translation for our time because of how word usages have changed over the last 400 years.
I am sure my Mennonite ancestors who helped found Germantown PA are spinning in their graves at how this denomination has perverted God's truth.
As to your remarks directed at the webmaster; the reason most heterosexuals think all gay men engage in anal intercourse is because of the gay activists who emphasize the sexual aspects of being gay. Add to this that the only way AIDS can be sexually transmitted male to male is by penetration and since about 50% of all HIV cases in the U.S. are men who have sex with men the logical conclusion is anal intercourse is a universal practice.
Just as Roman Catholics "interpret" various Scriptures to establish false doctrine so gay apologists are "interpreting" Scripture in an attempt to jusitfy a sin. Christianity is not a democracy where we can vote on interpreting God's truth. Christianity is a theocracy and God makes the rules.
Now, can you show me the Scriptures that contain instructions for male/male sexual relationships? God's word pretty well covers how a family is to be structured and I don't see where He has made provisions for same sex marriage relationships.