Don't you love how this gets regurgitated as if it's supposed to actually mean something? I'm pretty sure Jesus also never talked about microwaving kittens, so that makes it okay?
Why would he be expected to specifically re-articulate something that was embedded in the Jewish culture as a sin? Even when speaking to the adulterous woman, he didn't say, "It's all good. My father was just kidding with that commandment." He told her to not do it any more.
Yeah, let's see what else we can come up with that Jesus was never specifically quoted on. Ummm. Wife beating, maybe? How about rape? Bank robbery, perhaps?
I like to tell these Libertines that Jesus never condemned pedophilia...that always shut them up1
or arson
insurance fraud,
vehicular homicide, etc.
Therefore these are to be permitted, nay, celebrated?