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In reply to the discussion: Inaugural committee: 'We were not aware' of Giglio's anti-gay speech [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)It surprises me that he'd parse human rights in that fashion--look at Limbaugh, for example; he is anti-gay AND anti-women. I don't think he'd shed a tear at human trafficking--he more than likely benefits from it when he goes on his Costa Rican "golf trips" with a bottle of Viagra.
As for this minister, though, if he's all about the word of Jesus, Jesus didn't say a word on the topic of gay marriage or relationships, either way. The popular source to quote is Leviticus. And isn't Leviticus the one that encourages men who lie with men to be stoned? That's with the rocks, not the weed--though who knows, they get so much wrong, maybe they got that wrong, too.
That bible is full of contradictions, certainly--I especially like that old joke that has gone around for years, about the mixing of fabrics, and burning a bull upon the altar, and human sacrifice--it's constructed as a set of sincere religious questions, and it is rather hilarious. It does anger those who hew to a fundamentalist bent if these contradictions are commented upon, though.