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Great column in the St. Pete Times....
This past Tuesday in Jacksonville, the Florida Baptist Convention voted to support a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. ... "The church is the voice of morality," declared the sponsor of this resolution, the Rev. Jay Dennis of Lakeland.
My only question is:
Why just this morality?
Why just this sin?
...Sure, homosexuality is called an "abomination." The Bible says so, not too far from where the Bible also says it's okay to stone your headstrong son to death, and that you'd better stay away from menstruating women.
...In fact, irresistibly, Matthew 7:5 keeps coming back to me:
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Okay, enough. Read the thing already. It's good.
This past Tuesday in Jacksonville, the Florida Baptist Convention voted to support a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. ... "The church is the voice of morality," declared the sponsor of this resolution, the Rev. Jay Dennis of Lakeland.
My only question is:
Why just this morality?
Why just this sin?
...Sure, homosexuality is called an "abomination." The Bible says so, not too far from where the Bible also says it's okay to stone your headstrong son to death, and that you'd better stay away from menstruating women.
...In fact, irresistibly, Matthew 7:5 keeps coming back to me:
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Okay, enough. Read the thing already. It's good.