Tiny Queer Footballs

The Gay Christian Movement Watch and Common Sense

I’ve written about the GCMW before.  It is run by the ex-gay DL Foster, who never, ever has anything truly good to say.  He is so hung up about proving his own heterosexuality by bashing gays and lesbians.  By that method he will never, ever, get someone to think about turning gay to straight (and I don’t even know if that can be done.  I suppose I would believe it more if straights could turn gay, but that doesn’t seem to be in the realm of possibility). 

Yesterday Foster picked up on some fairly old news.  It was about some billboards that a church used to show the possibility of same-sex relationships in the bible.  I’m not going to say too much about it because I have written about some of these examples before (especially on David and Jonathan and their love for each other).  DL Foster writes (about these couples):

We posit again the implausibility, if not complete impossibility of such a sexual relationship primarily because under Levitical law homosexuality was condemned with punishment of death. David did violate the anti-adultery law with Bathsheba and was severely punished by God himself. Even the first child of the relationship died as a consequence of the sin. 

He writes that just because an Old Testament law condemned homosexuality, it would be implausible, if not completely impossible for such relationships to occur.  If you can’t understand that laws are created to stop behavior that is already occurring (why else create a law to stop something if not to stop the real thing?), then you can at least look at some modern day law.  Murder occurs, yet there are laws that punish people with death if they murder.  To say that it is implausible or impossible that there are murderers is just ridiculous.  It is the same with same-sex relationships in Hebrew history.  We existed.  Period. There is nothing that those at Gay Christian Movement Watch can do to change real history.  Maybe DL Foster can posit something more useful in the future. 

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