"I look upon Jesus' teaching on divorce as the first feminist legislation because a divorced woman was kicked out on the street with no assets or alimony. Her father would not take her back because she was a failure. No man would marry her. She had no education and few marketable skills. She would have to beg on the streets or prostitute herself."

Thank you. I have been pointing this out for years to hardliner literalists. Reading scripture literally and without putting it into the context of the culture and time in which it was written leads to erroneous understanding.   The gospels were written decades after Jesus' death, by unknown writers, who were not eyewitnesses. Anyone who ever played the telephone game as a kid understands how quickly the actual words spoken by the first person change as they are repeated down the line to the others. Imagine hundreds of stories, repeated over decades.  The truths taught by Jesus are not found in literal interpretations.