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

[nightlikeariver.livejournal.com]

those people are terminally stupid. rather than citing a scripture that's actually about being "sexually immoral" (which is, of course, depending on translation; technically speaking, anything outside of missionary in a married relationship is immoral, ha), they use some verse that doesn't have any context in their argument at hand. oy vey. freaks.

[besina-sartor.livejournal.com]

...but it's perfectly pious to offer your virgin daughters up for gang rape or to get your father drunk and sex him up to impregnate oneself... christians are weird.

[nightlikeariver.livejournal.com]

oh, but that's the OLD TESTAMENT, don't you know, everything is only applicable to the NEW TESTAMENT now...because the new testament is so much more forgiving and loving than the old...

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Hey, Jesus said, "Dudes, the OT is crap now! I am the new sheriff in this town!"

Too bad sombunal Christians only use this selectively. It's cool to use Deuteronomy when they want to bad some immoral behavior, but oh, Jesus saved us from all that OT stuff when it's inconvenient for them, like explaining all the murder and war.

[nightlikeariver.livejournal.com]

exaaaaactly.