I will fight for your right to proclaim openly your hatred of [insert group here] despite the fact that I may find such a belief repugnant. But to shroud your hatred in religion, in the faith held dear by so many is to do a great disservice to the faith, and it is at the very least, latently untruthful. Nationally syndicated columnist, Leonard Pitts, Jr., challenges the “intellectual constipation” of those:
[W]ho dress their homophobia up in Scripture, insisting with sanctimonious sincerity that it’s not homophobia at all, but just a pious determination to live according to what the Bible says. And never mind that the Bible also says it is “disgraceful” for a woman to speak out in church (1 Corinthians 14:34-36) and that if she has any questions, she should wait till she gets home and ask her husband. Never mind that the Bible says the penalty for going to work on Sunday (Exodus 35:1-3) is death. Never mind that the Bible says the man who rapes a virgin should buy her from her father (Deuteronomy 22:28-29) and marry her.I’m going to speculate that you don’t observe or support those commands. Which says to me that yours is a literalism of convenience, a literalism that is literal only so long as it allows you to condemn what you’d be condemning anyway and takes no skin off your personal backside.
I couldn’t speak to the hypocrisy of Bible-literalists any better, so I won’t. More on scriptural inaccuracies, inconsistences, revisionism, etc., via Kip, Esquire’s “What Shall I Say Unto Them?”