You Can't Win Against The Religious Right
by
Tony Collett
on Thu 14 Sep 2006 10:36 PM EDT
The Religious Right, in their continuing quest to protect us from the threat of the homosexual agenda, likes to say homosexuality is wrong because God (specifically Leviticus 18:22) says so. That's it, end of story.
But when you point out the other things that Leviticus (and other books) says are wrong as mentioned
here and
in the classic "Dear Dr. Laura" letter such as shaving is prohibited (Leviticus 19:27), prohibiting wearing mixed fibers or planting two different crops in the same field (Leviticus 19:19), touching the skin of an dead pig makes one unclean (Leviticus 11:6-8), cannot approach the altar of God if you have a defect in your sight (Leviticus 21:20) and that eating shrimp is an abomination (Leviticus 11:9-12); they reply that
it would be inconvenient or annoy people if we followed those laws that's part of the Bible that's irrelevant since Jesus died on the cross. And some add that it was mentioned as wrong in the book of Romans, as well, so that's that. A quick Google search turned up
this site that discusses the Bible, homosexuality, and translations. But it's doubtful that it would change any minds, or even to get them to think.
If you'll excuse me, I think I'll go engage in a more productive activity, like banging my head against the wall.
Update (a little later): Actually I've been reading from
the last site I linked to, particularly the previous battles with conservative religion on the topics of slavery, womens rights, etc. It gives me some hope seeing that this battle was fought before on other fronts.
