(Community Matters) I sometimes still post on the AAS blogsite. Yesterday posted about gay marriage in California. It attracted an unprecedented level of activity and comments.
I’ll admit to not understanding the perspective of God and the Bible that subscribes to the condemnation of homosexuality. Readers cite the example of Sodom and Gomorrah, though I’ve always been taught God’s wrath is more appropriately translated as directed against the inhabitants’ cruelty and inhospitality to strangers. Leviticus is open to so many translations of the original Hebrew text. Though, the text doesn’t translate directly into the language we use today for homosexual acts. The most literal translations seem to forbid idoltry, the treatment of men like women since men were said to have been created in God’s image (though these more about sexual positioning and lying in a women’s bed). Of course, there are all the arguments about selectivity, i.e., why Fundamentalists who profess a literal translation don’t do so re: dietary restrictions, ritual offerings, the Sabbath, cleanliness, etc.
Nevertheless, obviously people feel strongly about “their interpretations,” and have offered such in the unprecedented level of comments to yesterday’s posting. Comments and postings here.
Obviously, gays and lesbians DO need government protection from such hurtful, religous perspectives which believe we should be deprived of equal treatment under our constitution.
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