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It was just a few days ago as I recall I began getting the links to this particular video. In fact, I I believe it was when I was in Boston that I actually saw for the first time the Dan Savage Video.

Dan Savage is a radical pro homosexual activist a he has been convicted of voter fraud and has Let's just say is is the quintessential in-your-face homosexual activist and clearly deeply bigoted against Christianity and Just one of those examples of someone who is who is completely defined by sexuality and by his choice of a perverted sexuality.

That's just the essence of of who he is and it defines everything that he does. It's one of the reasons why these folks are so active the rest of us just want to live our lives. We want to you know, be married to our wives and we want to raise children, which we actually create ourselves and build a household and Serve in the church and and do the things we've been called to do and and we don't even want to be thinking too much About these other things and yet those who are trapped in this type of lifestyle.

It becomes it becomes their their essence. It is what they are. It's what they do. It's what they will dedicate themselves to anyway. For some reason Dan Savage was asked to speak to a high school Journalism conference and I remember a couple years ago when my daughter Encountered a vile anti-christian bigot in a local community college I at that time Was amazed at what was allowed to be said in the community college level and Now to hear the kind of language being used in look People said this type of stuff in locker rooms when I was in high school but it never happened in the in the official meetings of this school, that's for sure and So things things have changed a lot.

Anyway, I Have created a bleeped version of Dan Savage's Comments the three minutes and 16 seconds or so That everyone has been seeing. I wasn't actually going to address this. But I just did a very brief once you figure the breaks in maybe 20 23 minutes at the max Stint on issues, etc. Talking about this very subject and I had to talk very very fast and So since I created this I thought well it does sort of fit in With what else I was gonna talk about except I just realized I I let the URLs that I had go streaming past me here.

Which which may leave me completely unable to find what I was what I was looking for. Hopefully they're still they're still back here somewhere in my in my history in my chat channel, but anyway, I Want to talk a little bit about the Ron Brown situation up at Nebraska as well because he is a evangelical Christian and The arguments that were being used against him and The arguments that were being used to try to silence him on this very this very subject.

There it is is is very much related to what we are seeing in This particular situation with Dan Savage, so I guess it all does sort of fit together and will be a consistent hole and then we'll move on from from there, maybe take your phone calls a little bit later on we've got a Jumbo edition today, so we should have time for some of those things.

So let's I'm gonna stop and start but let's listen to the Dan Savage Presentation and again, I know I would be more than just slightly upset if my son or daughter came back from school and This is what they had been subjected to and like I said The the video camera does catch a number of people who will then be attacked by Dan Savage.

He has Apologized for that since then It didn't stop him at the time did it? But a number of students who got up and walked out Now, of course if they had been homosexual students walking out on somebody talking about let's say the sanctity of marriage they would have been looked on as heroes as advocates for free speech and if the person up front had dared to ever say anything about them the way that Savage did here.

Well, they would never they would be blacklisted forever. Do you think that'll happen with Dan Savage, of course not, of course, it won't there's no the hypocrisy of Of our society is is shocking. But anyways, let's let's listen to what Dan Savage had to say.

People often Point out that they can't help it. They can't help with the anti-gay bullying because it says right there in Leviticus. It says right there in Timothy. It says right there in Romans.

That being gay is wrong. Now I immediately stop it it does say that and I'm glad that Dan Savage at least is not one of those people who tries to pervert the Bible and Say that it doesn't say those things that normally is the approach of the religious left to try to redefine the biblical message and Try to say that well, the Bible really doesn't say that Homosexuality is wrong.

The Bible the biblical authors didn't know really what homosexuality was. They didn't understand what we know today because they didn't have psychologists and psychiatrists and so they they just didn't really know and He's just straight-up forward saying yeah, the Bible says that but then notice the utterly irrational argument that's being made.

There's bullying. There's bad things happening it's because the Bible says it's bad. Mr. Savage, sir, where does the Bible say that a Christian is to bully someone who is engaged in this sin where even in the Old Testament law for the nation of Israel Was a fellow Israelite to bully.

Even when the death penalty is mentioned who proclaims that the guy next door a kid in the in the in in the Torah class. No, there had to be a legal decision made the elders of the city were involved.

There was a process involved. There's nothing about bullying there. There's nothing about beatings there. There's nothing about individuals. Taking the law in their own hands. So where's the connection you want to maybe try to make a connection?

Well Yes. Those all those people doing it are Christians. Really? How many of those people that are doing that are actually people that are involved in their churches? Maybe people that are leading in in Bible studies and You know give to their churches and go on missions trips and things like that really seriously.

Yeah, I don't think so either and I think he knows that I think he knows that there's something just really desperately dishonest about pro-homosexual activists in their argumentation their perversion of history as we'll see their perversion of the Bible as well.

We can learn to ignore the In the Bible about gay people.

Now let's stop right there because this is very very common very very common and unfortunately We get emails here and And Partly I think it's Look, I always have to remember that just because I've addressed something ten times in the past doesn't mean that everyone who's just tuned in or something has taken the time to Understand it or listen or learn or whatever and just because I've written a book on a subject doesn't mean people are gonna take time to read the book.

We We have addressed These arguments many many times. I've written a book called the same-sex controversy with Jeff Neal and We addressed this argument there. We I would be interested if we still have.

May we need to do it again or just replay it. I'm sure it's on the way back machine at some time, but that might mean it's played at three o 'clock in the morning, too We Grabbed and I I do need to do this again.

We grabbed the audio at some point in the past and divine line I remember this and We went through the West Wing presentation remember Where we played the president mocking the dr. Laura thing. Look, the homosexuals have not come up with anything new.

They just keep recycling the same old stuff that we have Refuted over and over and over again, but they depend upon the continuing ignorance of their audience. I Can say this because I've debated Barry Lynn I've debated John Shelby Spong and They weren't they weren't even competitive debates because these men are used to being on CNN and only having to talk for 45 seconds and never having to answer a direct question and never have to present a a an argument that lasts for 25 minutes and then engage in cross-examination and Almost none of them can read the biblical languages almost none of them know about biblical history.

They're almost always dependent on secondary sources that they've read from this pro-homosexual scholar that pro-homosexual scholar and So they you know that we've gone through all this stuff over and over and over again but look the reason that the Dan savages of the world get away with this is because most Christians don't read the book of Leviticus or Deuteronomy and They've never given Almost any thought whatsoever To the nature of the Old Testament law to what a creation ordinance is to what a Shadow and type are to what laws are related specifically to the people of Israel as the people of Israel and what laws are not and so they They fall for whatever excuses is thrown out there.

Well, it's only had to do with Israel. Really that's why Jesus quotes so much from Leviticus. That's why this is the this is the section that love your neighbor as yourself comes from. Oh Okay, that's a little bit simplistic.

I guess we can't go that way yeah, it takes some work to actually look at and understand What is related to the subject of Holiness and God's purpose for our lives and what is incidental to that or part of the Identification of the people of Israel, maybe it's something to keep the people of Israel from becoming involved with or like the people around them.

There's a lot of work that goes into this and I can guarantee you people like Dan savage or Dan Brown for them Do not do the work that is necessary to handle those things appropriately. Yeah, we've got the program was June 26 2008 and We're actually going to queue it up To follow this particular program so I won't have to spend quite as much time because you can just listen to the Just keep the feed going and listen to the next program and you'll hear a discussion of those very things.

And if I recall correctly, I'm not sure this was the one I did it in but I went through some of The sections in the Holiness Code and I gave some background and I talked about. You know why. Certain of these would need to be seen in such a way that we are we are seeing it as a general principle that can be applied today we everybody knows the the issue of putting a railing around the the roof of your house.

Well, none of us almost none of us go up on the roofs of our houses anymore. But in that day they did they spent a lot of time up there and so you have the general application of the concept of doing that which is necessary to preserve and protect human life and We talked about other things we talked about being careful not to Assume that certain things back then especially if you've got terminology.

It's only used like once in the Old Testament once in the entire Bible. Be careful not to just automatically assume that that maps into a modern situation. Be careful to be careful the hapax legomena the the The terms are used only use once we talked about all that stuff.

I'm not sure if that was that exact program or not, but it'll be useful to you if you take the time to look at but Here he's talking about shellfish and if if Dan Savage Cannot tell the difference. I mean just stand back he Criticizes the entirety of the Bible.

He goes all the way to Philemon, which he identifies as the shortest of the books in the New Testament and he Talks about that and so he's willing to draw from all all of the Bible. Okay, how about we allow the Bible to be consistent? with itself.

So how about we allow Jesus words in Mark to be quoted when he made all meats clean? Okay, then we have in this section something about not eating shellfish. But clearly Jesus Suspends that by making all meats clean in the coming of the Messiah but that same Messiah says in Matthew chapter 19 that God created male and female and Then a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and The two shall become one flesh.

So there is no Abrogation of fulfillment of clear teaching that those laws specifically had to do with the Old Covenant people and Are not to be brought into the New Covenant. No instead what you have are the New Covenant writers Jesus and his Apostles repeating and Reemphasizing the reality that the prohibition against homosexuality goes to the very created order itself.

Now, why doesn't Dan Savage show some Integrity in dealing with the biblical text because that won't accomplish anything for him. He wants to do the the shock thing. He wants to do the surface level thing.

He wants to do the emotional thing. Because he's not representing truth, that's all it's just fairly straightforward on that. So there is no connection. We ignore. No, we don't ignore any of those things.

We look at them. We see how they functioned in the Old Covenant economy and We don't just simply say oh, we're not in the law. We're under grace and just forget all about those things. I realize there are some people that take that simplistic perspective, but I'm talking about serious Students of Scripture.

We want to look at each one of them and we want to ask ourselves the question Is there something here that goes to creation that speaks about God's intended purposes for us? Is there an abiding moral principle it needs to be applied here?

Not eating shellfish was part of separating yourself out as the people of God to whom the promises of the Messiah had been given the Messiah has come and That Messiah himself made all meats clean. But issues of faithfulness and marriage and virginity and adultery and fornication and bestiality and and incest all these things not only are not undone by the New Testament revelation.

But simple common sense teaches you that we see these very same things impressed upon the hearts and minds of individuals who have never read a Bible and Yet they recognize that these things are inappropriate.

They're wrong and There is a reason for it. You just you just look at the man who's caught cheating on his wife and I don't care what his worldview is the reason that he looks both ways when he comes out of the hotel rooms because he's got a conscience and That is the issue.

That is absurd it's a lie and It's dishonest and he knows it. Oh. The Bible talks about slavery it does the Bible regulates slavery, but you see he's talking to an audience where the term slavery has meaning a and the Bible has meaning C and there's a meaning B in between and so to.

Just throw that statement out knowing Exactly what his audience will interpret as is a lie. It is dishonest it is reprehensible and I do not accept the idea that he's ignorant of this. I'm sure he does know this.

But you see slavery in the Old Testament was different than slavery under Rome and Slavery under Rome was different than slavery in the American South. But he doesn't want to make those distinctions. He doesn't want to talk to you about the fact that slavery saved lives in the Hebrew economy because then you have to talk to you about the fact that you know that there was there were people lived right on the margins of life and there are many times when when If a famine comes in the land if there if there's a drought if there's flood of things like that there be people who are so much on the margins that they wouldn't make it through things like that and Slavery actually allowed a man to save his wife and his family To sell himself into slavery rather than starving to death, but it was regulated and if you remember anything about the Jubilee year It was something that would be released in a period of time it was a means of protecting the poor and it was so regulated that a slave might so much love his master that at the time of freedom he may not want to leave and It made provision even for that, but he doesn't want to talk about that.

That doesn't that doesn't help his paradigm any. That's not gonna help him make his points. We don't want to talk about that. We don't want to talk about the difference between that and what you had in Roman slavery.

What we want to do is is even you want to you want to bash Paul around a little bit because because what you're really saying is what Paul should have done is Paul should have Started a rebellion in his Rome.

And he should have forever wedded the Christian faith to a particular political Ideology and inaction and so there were lots of people who Tried to get the slaves to revolt in Rome and they normally ended up nailed on crosses along major highways and so I guess what you're saying is Well, you know unless Paul was willing to do that Then he's he was a bad guy and it's a pro-slavery document that's the same document that was that was talking to Christian slaves as to how they should treat their masters and Christian masters as to how they should treat their slaves.

Yeah, okay, and then you have the completely different form of slavery in the American South and He's gonna say later those slave owners Held the Bible above their heads. Yeah, well, they were wrong too.

Just like you are the abuse of A document is not an excuse for bad behavior and Those southern slave owners who were fathering children with their slaves and Holding the Bible up were hypocrites. But that's not a meaningful argument against the Bible any more than my taking Dan Savage's writings and Holding them over my head as an excuse for some type of bad behavior makes Dan Savage responsible for my bad behavior.

It's all this guilt by association genetic fallacy silliness. Dan Savage needs take a simple logic class. But actually I don't think he needs to do that. He knows what he's doing isn't logical.

At all Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it. The shortest book in the New Testament Is a letter from Paul to a Christian slave owner about owning his Christian slave and Paul doesn't say Christians don't own people.

Paul talks about how Christians We ignore what the Bible says about slavery because the Bible got slavery.

Wrong. No, we don't ignore it. Okay, some people ignore it. I don't ignore it. Serious Christians don't ignore it. They actually Contextualize it understand it historically see how it functioned in history.

See how it relates to the entire message and how it If we take your perspective Basically Christianity could only be a modern enlightened Western perspective that could not have possibly existed until modern times in essence.

We don't ignore it. He's accusing us of ignoring things. We're not. There are people who call themselves Christians who ignore a bunch of the Bible and Go to you know Some big mega churches and just only worry about what a person up front smiling at them says about how good they are.

We're talking about serious Christianity here and Serious Christians and serious Christian scholars have not ignored any of this. We have dealt with these issues. We have studied these issues and Dan Savage Could I suppose just be ignorant of that, but I don't think so.

I don't think so. This is a guy with an agenda and He is an anti-christian bigot. You want to see bigotry look at Dan Savage? This is what bigotry really looks like when you twist things the way he's twisting things.

Tim Sam Harris letter to a Christian nation. Points out that the Bible got the easiest moral question that humanity has ever faced. Wrong. Slavery, what are the odds of the Bible got something as complicated as human sexuality.

Wrong now?

Sam Harris and Dan Savage have both taken what is in fact a much more complex issue and that is the Bible's teaching on slavery economics the poor all sorts of things like that and Have simplified it and in so doing transferred it into a context it never had.

And so their comments on this are just simply bogus. They're wrong. They're untrue. Period end of discussion. You need to be much more thoughtful in in your approach and so then we have this idea of the complexity of Human sexuality.

What you need to understand is Dan Savage is saying that Jesus in Matthew chapter 19 was stupid. He was simplistic. I mean, I think if I think if he was honest, he would say that. If he was honest He would say yet.

Yeah, Jesus got it wrong somebody. Somebody needs to ask him that. Be nice to get the guy to actually do a serious moderated public debate sometime. That would be interesting. 100

The Bible says that if your daughter's not a virgin on her wedding night. If a woman isn't a virgin on her wedding night, she shall be dragged to her father's doorstep and stoned to death. Callista Gingrich lives.

There is no effort to amend state constitutions to make it legal to stone women to death on their wedding night If they're not virgins. At least not yet. Oh.

Yeah, again This is in the context of as far as I understand it a a public school high school journalism thing. I It seems the left can get away with anything. The reference is Deuteronomy chapter 22 and it has to do with the sanctity of marriage and the Issue of a woman who claims to be a virgin but is not a virgin and The discovery of this and The only issues in Deuteronomy 22 are medical issues they are not ethical issues.

The idea of Claiming to be a virgin. Claiming to be in fact the term that's actually used here is virgin of Israel. In fact, if what he doesn't mention is if someone makes an accusation against a woman and saying that she wasn't a virgin and She was the guy is not only fine.

He's beaten. Because he's brought an accusation against a virgin of Israel. In other words, it was a very exalted thing to be recognized as a person who was a virgin. Entering into marriage in the appropriate way.

Now we realize in our society today that such things as as being a virgin when you are married being pure. Avoiding engagement in in adultery and fornication. Who cares right? I mean that doesn't matter to anybody anymore.

That's irrelevant. We're just all bunch of animals. We all know once you're 13 years to start doing that, right? That seems to be the worldview that is involved there, but then you had it thrown together with a bunch of left-wing politics just for the fun of it.

People are dying. You want it you want it. You want to see Demagoguery. You want to see the use of emotion? To Just completely cloud real issues. People are dying. Parents if you've got young children in the room, you might want to Stop the stream for a second or turn the volume down or go give them a cookie in the other room.

But I'm gonna be straightforward here. We all know about AIDS and we all know that it is primarily a Disease that was transmitted within the homosexual community and continues to be Transmitted in that way, but what you don't necessarily know about and it was something I had to learn about in doing my research for the same-sex controversy and the debates that I've done since then is the huge number of diseases That medical facilities have to treat in places where there are large homosexual populations especially in San Francisco and cities like that.

The human body was not designed to be abused the way that it is in homosexuality and the number of gastrointestinal diseases That are Promulgated through promiscuous group homosexual sex, which is by far Much more common in the homosexual community than in the heterosexual community.

The idea of a monogamous homosexual is almost unknown certainly less than 1 Including how to treat diseases caused by having to remove Animals from certain orifices of the human body. You want to talk about people dying you what you want.

You want to just talk sheer numbers? The number of people who have died from beatings or suicides in comparison a number of people have died from diseases brought on by homosexual behavior is microscopic.

Microscopic. You can't get the final numbers because of course we're allowed to that's profiling say but it's it's just you want to talk if the hypocrisy the absolute hypocrisy of Blaming the Bible For people abusing it and then not being just as clear and far more loud in Calling for this ending of that kind of behavior.

Sadly, you can go online. You'll have to turn off your your security filters. Your porn filters, but you can go online and you can find the videos of these gay pride marches. You can find what's going on right out in public right off of these main streets in certain Cities in this country and if you ain't used to seeing that kind of thing, you're good.

You're gonna be you're not even believe it. So don't sit there Dan Savage and Tell me that you're really all that worked up. It's so easy to get the emotions going, isn't it? What about your emotions for all those people have died of those diseases?

This kind of thing. Well, anyway, they can't get past this one last thing in the Bible about homosexuality. What do they want to talk about is.

Now here if you're watching the video he started looking at some notes and. All those kids have walked out and he just you can tell he's going. Should I say it should I go there?

So you can tell the Bible guys in the hall they can come back now because I'm done beating up the Bible. Beatings that are justified by the Bible. How pansy. Oh.

So he's been beaten and he blames the Bible. I'm sorry if Dan Savage has been beaten but it is Subject foolishness to blame the Bible. Oh, but they quoted it. Which parts they quote? Did they quote the part where Christians talk about being the chief of sinners?

Absolutely dependent upon God's grace. Need of need of redemption. That we have nothing we can we can claim for ourselves. Did they quote that part? Let's be honest this man hates God and he hates God's law and He is involved every single day in suppressing the knowledge of God and that conscience.

That is there. And as a result if anybody dares to repeat the very words that he finds so abhorrent he's gonna lash out at them as He just did. Oh we just pushed back. No, you just lied is what you did.

Anyone's feelings, all right, that sounds like a real apology, doesn't it? Hey covers everything but.

I have a right to defend myself and to point out the hypocrisy the people who justify anti-gay bigotry by pointing to the Bible and Insisting we must live by the Code of Leviticus on this one issue in the world.

Now there's the end but There's the lie. Because that's exactly what we are not doing at all. In case mr. Savage has missed it. That's the very section of Leviticus says you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Did we skip that one? I'm sorry that mr. Savage hasn't invested the time to actually seriously interact with the text. All he's done is he's read other people who likewise haven't taken the time to seriously interact and they probably just read somebody else who might have taken the time to Seriously interact with it, but doing so from a massively bigoted perspective.

But that doesn't change the reality that that's a lie. We're not picking and choosing randomly. We're not picking and choosing based upon bigotry or prejudice or anything else. And the funny thing is I want to transition talking about Ron Brown here.

I've got the videotape. I've got the video camera going and I've got a serious thing about something if I try posting this Maya. My accounts gone. Everything I have up there on on Islam and everything else gone, you know that you know that.

We all know everyone listening right now. Knows that's the case. He can stand in a public high school use profanity and lie about the Bible and That's okay in our society if we respond with logical argumentations facts and the context.

You know, it'll happen, you know, it'll happen and that's exactly what's happening to Ron Brown. Yesterday I was pointed to a number of Articles where Ron Brown who is a coach for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

Both of these articles one is off the bench on NBC Sports. The other one is at ESPN. One is by Jean. Oh my goodness. Would just chose ski. Oh My w o j c ie ch o w s k i. Jean move your ski. That's the best I can do on that one.

Anyway. Both of them taking this man on for daring to express his evangelical Christian worldview in front of the Omaha Nebraska City Council. The Cornhuskers assistant coach recently testified in front of the Omaha, Nebraska City Council of gays lesbians and transgender people Shouldn't receive anti-discrimination protection under a proposed ordinance.

He is considering testifying on May 7th in front of Lincoln City Council Which will conduct a public hearing on proposed legislation that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

Now, of course folks you must understand That the phraseology is specific for these folks. They are trying to redefine Human morality they are trying to redefine the morality upon which this nation was built as Under the guise of civil rights and so nondiscrimination now means That you must accept as positive and good and moral Viewpoints that were universally seen as evil only a few generations ago that's just that's what we are facing and we have to be able to explain that and we have to be able to say look what you're actually doing here is You are redefining the language.

You're using the language to avoid being honest about what you're really doing. You are asking all of us in our society to fundamentally Not just abandon but reverse Reverse Our moral perspective and our moral worldview.

You're asking us to overthrow it and to embrace Positively a completely different worldview and a completely different set of morality that is fundamentally opposed to the Christian faith. Now notice it goes on to say this is the last snarky of the two.

This is the ESPN one. None of this would matter if Brown were an ordinary citizen with an extraordinary belief in his interpretation of the Bible's position on homosexuality. Did you catch that? It's just one interpretation.

There are many others Because we all know The Bible really doesn't say anything. It's just a mass of contradictory text open to all sorts of interpretation. I mean it these folks are functioning off of Scripts, it's just painfully obvious.

That belief led him to compare the sponsors of the Omaha ordinance to Pontius Pilate and to tell the Associated Press that based on the Bible Homosexuality the lifestyle of homosexuality is a sin. Now the only way I can Catch the Pontius Pilate connection there at all is.

Maybe he made some type of a statement similar to what I've made in the past and that is that To ask a Christian to accept as a positive moral value the concept of Homosexuality lesbianism The profanation of marriage called gay marriage, etc. Etc is to demand that we deny Christ.

Because that's what it is. That's exactly we're being told to do you must deny the right of Jesus Christ to define for you Your world you cannot follow him as Lord when it comes to this you must deny his lordship in this area.

That is what our society is telling us. But notice this none of this would matter if Brown were an ordinary citizen. But goes on to say but Brown isn't an ordinary citizen. He is a coach at a public university and for a revered football program whose reach stretches from Omaha to Scott's Bluff.

When he speaks his words carry more power because of his association with Nebraska football. So when Hollywood stars Speak in behalf of gay marriage, I suppose we're consistent. They shouldn't have the right to do that either, right?

Well We don't find folks on the left to be very consistent at this point. It was no accident that when Brown spoke to the Omaha City Council He listed his address as Nebraska's Memorial Stadium. And there is no separation of church and state on Brown's Nebraska football office voice message.

I praise Lord Jesus Christ for today. I hope you're having a blessed day. Not able to answer my phone right now. Give me a try back and Lord willing. I'll get back to you as soon as possible. Have a great day.

Oh. That's terrible, that's terrible. Oh, can you oh What a bigot to do something like that's horrible in a land where presidents used to call for prayer. Oh. It's terrible horrible. Brown as well as Nebraska Athletic Director Tom Osborne has said that Brown City Council testimony reflected only the assistant coaches personal views.

I guess if you work for a public university, you can't have personal views. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. There are all sorts of people who work for public universities that will promote the most wild-eyed leftist immoral perspectives on the planet and I guess that's their freedom because it's a university after all unless You're a Christian.

I guess that's gonna be the one perspective that you can't express if you work for a University and the the NBC one was even more snarky. Because it again it's again the same old same old. One of my favorite books the Bible is a viticus where it explains what types of birds one can eat.

Munch on a quail or a partridge and you're fine. But take a bite out of an owl and you're in serious serious trouble with God. Leviticus 11 13. Also, you can eat crickets, but not beetles. God is quite clear about this.

So it starts off again with a person who probably has zip Zero, not a knowledge of the backgrounds these things doesn't care. But is can you imagine? if this man was a Muslim a Black Muslim even oh would either one of these two articles exist.

Not on your life. Not on your life, I'm looking down below a Friend of mine who has recently earned his divinity master's degree as an opinion on just this type of preaching. There is something called proof texting wherein someone has a thought and then they search the Bible to find corroboration of that thought.

It is bad. Preaching is bad theology. He said it has been used with venom against certain types of God's children those who taught Leviticus 22 18 don't lie the man is one lies the woman that is detestable as.

Their reasoning is homosexual. I might want to read all the Leviticus guess what we do. Whereas homosexuality is detestable adultery according Leviticus 2010 is punishable by death. Yep. Homosexuality is detestable adultery is punishable death quite a difference.