re: #117 Honorary Yooper

It’s less to do with hatred of gay people than that these folks have a twisted belief that the Bible must be 100% accurate, true, and factual. If, for some reason, the Bible is not that, they fear that their faith will not be justified.

Literalism is a very twisted belief system, IMHO. It comes out of the protestant traditions brought over to America starting in the 17th Century. It was expanded upon during the Great Awakenings afterward. If you’ll note, all of this tends to come from evangelical churches that base their belief on the Bible and believe that belief alone is good enough for salvation. As splits have occurred, this has also become a mainstay of nondenomination churches as well. It is not a core belief in the Catholic Church or in any of the Orthodox Churches, or most other churches that believe that one must have faith as well as performing good works.

They still cherry pick what they want to be literal about which makes them intellectually dishonest right from the start. I don’t see too many biblical literalists trying to kill someone by stoning them to death for wearing cotton-polyester blend clothing. Eating shellfish was described by the same word as male homosexuality was. They aren’t protesting outside of Red Lobster that I know of. If somewhere along the line, Jesus said “thou shalt ignore Leviticus” (I’m not a Christian, I don’t know if he did) then they should also be dropping hatred of homosexuality.