Reply #5: For those who constantly cite the eight verses or so supposedly against homosexuality: [View All]

[knitter4democracy]

Ask them about the epistle of Philemon. It's an entire book in the Bible from St. Paul to a Christian convert who was also a slave. In it, Paul tells Philemon to keep being a good slave so that he could get his reward in heaven. There is an entire book in the Bible promoting slavery (not just a couple of verses) and many, many, many references to it in the rest of the Bible--and yet, Christians decided slavery was wrong and fought to end it and are still fighting to end it.

Why did they do that? It's based on the Second Greatest Commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself. Since the abolitionists decided that anyone and everyone in slavery was also a neighbor, that made for a strong argument to end the practice.

So, ask those homophobes who their neighbor is and why a handful or two of verses somehow trumps the Second Greatest Commandment. I have yet to have anyone give me a good answer. I even got the PR chick with James Dobson's office to shut up on that one a couple years back. It works.