Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Bigotry on high, part 2
Further to my post on Sunday, I see the Church of England is supporting the Catholic Church in its bid to be exempt from laws on adoption by gay couples. They talk about "rights of conscience", but what they are actually doing is using religion to hide their homophobia. Just because some religious textbook written a couple of thousand years ago says something is wrong does not mean that those who believe in it should be above the law. If that argument succeeded then the Bible could be used as a defence against many offences, such as killing an adulterer, rape and even genocide. Of course, modern Christians do not (usually) condone rape and murder, but that is because they have chosen which parts of the Bible to follow - what, then, apart from their homophobia, prevents them from choosing not to follow the Bible's advice on homosexuality?
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