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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you're against marriage equality because "it goes against the Bible," ...
...then I hope you've also given up these other things.Found on the Being Liberal Facebook page
Give up Football?..Lobster?...Eating pork?...NO WAY! JOSE
thucythucy
(8,086 posts)of the Bible aren't meant to be taken literally.
Only the parts that reinforce our own personal bigotry.
I don't need a sarcasm thing-y, do I?
Oh Hell, just in case:
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)That's all in the old testament. Oh, wait Jesus never said anything about gay people, must have been an oversight.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)forbade women to speak in public, ask a question of anyone other than her husband, to dress in any expensive clothing or clothing intended to draw attention to her looks. He wrote that slaves should obey their masters with joy, the master being God's earthly proxy. It goes on like this.
Jesus, not a word about it. But the NT is not immune from anti gay verses nor does it break the magic rule that each and every Biblical author who wrote against gay people also wrote in favor of slavery. And yet people quote those verses and pretend the next one does not say you can sell your daughters or some other horrific thing.
appleannie1
(5,068 posts)highest bidder. The Bible is also for sharing all your wealth with the needy and is totally against amassing large fortunes. It is also against fruits or vegetables grown from modified seed and to eat of their flesh is an abomination in the eyes of God.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)But it also says you can pass down ownership of human beings to your heirs, as if they were objects. As long as they are not your own countrymen, meaning as long as your slavery is racist God likes it just fine!
Ezlivin
(8,153 posts)The bible also reports the first case of PMS.
Dark n Stormy Knight
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