Reply #39: Some are the Klan, some are the White Citizens Council [View All]

[markus]

What troubles me is not the openly hate filled churches. They're almost as easy to identify as the skinheads. It's their fellow travelers and useful idiots, like the Catholic Church and its endorsement of the gay marriage amendment hear in North Dakota.

While that endorsement was the last straw for me, I'd had enough interaction with the local clergy to know that some of them were probablyu troubled by the new bishop's boisterous support. But you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas. They will have to confront the issue that they have joined in with the open bigots, and explain themselves.

Again, the radical clerics are so selective in their reading of the Bible, that you could probably find any number of passages that preach against their ideology, and they will cheerfully find references from the old testmement or the back of the book to support their position.

I say it's time to toss out the Old Testament and the glosses in the back, and just take the Gospel as the only really useful text. If I ever make my peace with Xianity again, it will be somewhere in that space.