Dominicans Rage Against Obama's Gay Ambassador Pick

[Zen Democrat]

10. Recall the ambassador and cut foreign aid. They can't dictate their religious intolerance.

Even taking the "Christian" point of view ... I was taught in the church that sin is sin and none is worse than another, and all have sinned and fallen short. That's what I learned in church. If you have wished someone dead, you have murdered. If you lusted for someone not your spouse, you have committed fornication or adultery. And there's the thing about not picking the speck out of your brother's eye when you have a beam in your own.

All this anti-gay bigotry that is "based on the Bible" is really just based on anti-gay bigotry in the Bible. I remember asking a pastor when I was about 13 why the Bible said don't eat shellfish or pork when we loved shrimp and bacon. That Baptist pastor told me that Leviticus was Old Testament law that was overturned by Jesus and his Good News. He said that those old Jewish laws don't apply to modern life. That would cover scriptures claiming homosexuality as an abomination. And it keeps men from putting their menstruating wives out in a tent in the 21st century. And since we now know that homosexuality is something people are born with, that excludes it from being a sin. And menstruation is not a sin. How did church teachings deteriorate into hate, fear and ignorance over the past decades from a gleam of enlightenment in the 60's?