beowabbit: (Pol: Mass. State House and pride flag)
beowabbit ([personal profile] beowabbit) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2014-08-13 05:16 am (UTC)

The point to me is not that only stupid people think God hates shrimp; rather, only stupid people claim they read the entire Bible as the inerrant and utterly literal word of God, and then ignore the parts of it they don't feel like dealing with.
That’s how I’ve always taken that response to people quoting Leviticus 18:22 against homosexuality — as criticizing the bigots’ familiarity with their own (most typically some flavor of Protestant) religious tradition.

(My eyes sort of glazed over a couple paragraphs into that article the message I got from it was that no argument against oppression that doesn’t presuppose and depend on the author’s particular Correct interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures is worth making. By anybody, whether they adhere to that particular tradition or not.)

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