God ain't talkin' no shit.

[jackshoegazer]

I saw one of those annoying God Hates Fags signs.  It had a Biblical footnote, Romans 9:13.  I decided to see where exactly in the Bible this fool claims God declared his hatred for homosexuals.  Let me read to you Romans 9:13:

"As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."

So that's God talking there.  And boy, he *hates* Esau.  Man, Esau must have totally fucked a bunch of dudes!  Uh, no.  There is nothing in the story of Esau about homosexuality at all.  Not even the slightest whiff of man-on-man action.  Esau married women and had children.  Esau was tricked by Jacob into giving up his birthright as the eldest son for some lentils.  He was kind of sad, not too bright, and apparently pretty hungry.

Therefore, can anyone here explain to me why that Biblical passage was used in a message of hate, how that passage and the story of Esau has anything to do with hating homosexuality?  Yeah, didn't think so.

Comments

[labelle77.livejournal.com]

Can't explain it, but it did make me think of a post I saw the other day when someone, responding to another poster's long, nonsensical spewage of bible-thumping, said "sorry, a bible verse does not count as evidence. citing the bible is worse than citing wikipedia." and i laughed and laughed.

Over the past couple of days I've happened to run in to a lot of vocal hate-mongers... hating the poor, the gay, anyone not rich, white or privileged.... it makes me want to run out and smother everyone with love for who they are. Well. maybe everyone except for the rich white and privileged. they seem to get enough.

[nearlymay.livejournal.com]

"citing the bible is worse than citing wikipedia." *snort*

[besina-sartor.livejournal.com]

methinks that is gonna make for a great tag line :)