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

[besina-sartor.livejournal.com]

"thou shalt not lay with a man as you do with a woman"

Ok, well, that in some instances, is just common sense as men don't have vaginas. But it also may be construed just to mean "don't bugger your women -- just the men."

Re: Leviticus

[castleclear.livejournal.com]

The cultural laws in Leviticus, wherein eating shellfish is an "abomination", cooking meat with milk is an "abomination", wearing clothing made from different fabric (e.g., a cotton shirt and wool pants) is an "abomination", I'm told was an effort to preserve cultural integrity among the ancient Jewish population, an effort to resist assimilation into the dominant non-Jewish culture of where they were living.