Cafeteria Christianity to justify prejudice (and of course pander)

To those who hold to this ridiculous view that our founding fathers were Bible-thumping Baptists in the vein of Pat Robertson, et al.

You need to go back and look at the various religious beliefs of the presidents. Deists and Quakers and Presbyterians don’t share a lot of dogma with Southern Baptists or what passes for “Christian” these days in America . (I’m not going to prove to you again how un-Christian the small but very influential and vocal group of southern Baptists are, nor how unrepresentative they are of Christianity in America ).

And for your very irrelevant shout out to your obsession with gays…the gay marriage issue is a fake issue that you and your sloganeering buddies like to trot out to avoid REAL issues. (I’ve been waiting for you to tell me for years now, why you care who I marry, without trotting out incest and goats, but you’ve got nothing…PROVING how little of an issue it really is).

Did Truman and Kennedy talk about gay marriage? Nope. But then again, Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson didn’t talk very much about Civil Rights, does that mean that rights for blacks are not consistent with “Traditional Values”? The point: you can’t live in the past. Tradition doesn’t make it right. The world moves on. You and your gay-fearing buddies will be tossed on the scrapheap of history along with people who opposed a heliocentric system, suffrage for women and civil rights for blacks. Picking and choosing obscure biblical passages while ignoring the ones right next to it, doesn’t really seem like a “value system”, it seems like cherry-picking to support your prejudice.

"For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon him." (Leviticus 20:9)

"Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard." (Leviticus 19:27)

"...and the swine, though it divides the hoof, having cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud, is unclean to you." (Leviticus 11:7)

"...do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. Do not wear material woven of two kinds of material." (Leviticus 19:19)

"But all in the seas or in the rivers that do not have fins and scales, all that move in the water or any living thing which is in the water, they are an abomination to you." (Leviticus 11:10)

"They (shellfish) shall be an abomination to you; you shall not eat their flesh, but you shall regard their carcasses as an abomination." (Leviticus 11:11)