walk away now and you're gonna start a war

Think of it this way: Picture a seesaw. Take all of the passages you can find in the Bible that might possibly be construed as condemning homosexuality and gently place them on one seat of the seesaw. Now take all of the passages and parables and sermons and stories in the Bible that deal with wealth, possessions and the poor and drop them onto the other seat. That seesaw just became a catapult, launching that little collection of verses on homosexuality high into the air. The popular emphasis on biblical teaching on homosexuality distorts and inverts the emphasis of the text itself. When my e-mail accusers cite the Bible, or when it is cited by the loudest of the evangelical advocacy groups, they’re almost always talking about sex, usually gay sex, and almost never talking about wealth, possessions or the poor. They’ve allowed the tiny fraction of the minor sub-theme to eclipse the importance of the major theme discussed throughout the text itself. That’s backwards. That’s contrary to what the actual book says.