Dear Prof. Bock,

You seem not to have read large portions of this article. Miller addresses the very points you say she ignores, e.g.:

Bock: "Let's ignore that Jesus’ remarks about family, where he appears indifferent to it, belong in a context where God is to receive primary allegiance over everything including the next most important cultural relationship, the one with family."

Miller: "The biblical Jesus was—in spite of recent efforts of novelists to paint him otherwise—emphatically unmarried. He preached a radical kind of family, a caring community of believers, whose bond in God superseded all blood ties. Leave your families and follow me, Jesus says in the gospels. There will be no marriage in heaven, he says in Matthew. Jesus never mentions homosexuality, but he roundly condemns divorce"

This seems to me to be exactly the kind of contextualizing argument you claim is lacking. Can it be that your prickly reaction to the piece has more to do with the nerve she touches elsewhere in the piece?: "Religious objections to gay marriage are rooted not in the Bible at all, then, but in custom and tradition (and, to talk turkey for a minute, a personal discomfort with gay sex that transcends theological argument).