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The following is an email from Joe Quigley
(Posted 7-6-03)

(7-4-03) When the Supreme Court came out with its ruling on the Texas sodomy case, the "religious" right, conservative politicians and supreme court justices who while decrying the decision as based more on politics than law did so based more on politics than law bewailed what they call relative morality among other catchy and scary unsubstantial phrases.
   They try to condemn the ruling based on their knowledge of history and the lack of this knowledge on the part of liberals, while actually ignoring history (there was no prohibiton in the christian church against same sex love until well into the 14 century which would indicate a longer standing acceptance of it than the 600 years of inconsistent condemnation).
   In light of the recent visit of Billy Graham to Oklahoma City, the witness offered by Hizzonner the mayor and the subsequent calls for a Christian nation, a return to (what) religion in America and the judging of others as less than godly or American for not buyng it, I thought it was time to bring a statement of Billy Graham to the attention of those who might have missed it.
    In the Daily Oklahoman there is an Ask Dr. Billy Graham column that appears in that section of the paper that has the T.V. schedule, Ann Landers and Miss Manners in which the Reverend answers questions sent in by the faithful who might need a little clarification on some fuzzy areas of theology. A few years back ( not many since I have not been in this burgh that long and I kept this Q and A) a woman wrote concerned that in Leviticus it stated that because someone committed a particular sin ( something straight people would be more inclined to do than Gays or Lesbians) they were not to be allowed into the sanctuary. The questioner was concerned because a relative she loved had committed that sin and would probably return to Jesus if she could get him to church, but this Levitical admonition would not allow her to bring him, and his potential salvation would be severely curtailed.
   Billy said that that admonition was from that part of the bible that did not apply to Christians.
   WHOA!
Billy actually stated that Christians could pick and choose what sections they held to?
   Who makes that choice? Since this levitical proscription would obviously apply to a larger majority than the often misapplied "Do not lie with a man as with a women" targets (and it appears very close to it), it seems to me that the majority can dismiss parts of the bible that could apply to them while holding a chosen minority to ones that do not. Not only is this a little on the side of situational application and relative moralism, but it also ignores St. Paul's warning in Galatians that you cannot pick and choose what biblical laws you consider worth following. You either follow them all, or you follow none. Even he was referring to what is now considered the old testament ( that part of the bible quoted more often by so called christians than the new testament that one would assume christians would have a greater interest in quoting).
   And here's Rev. Graham saying some parts of the Bible can be ignored. Most of those who condemn Gays and Lesbians, the Supreme Court decision,most liberals and people with open minds hold the Bible as inerrant and therefore something that must be followed to the letter even if that letter is used only to raise money rather than save souls. Yet here is their hero saying in print that parts of the Old Testament are irrelevant. It appears to me that those who are most vocal in their condemnations and who are accusing everyone they do not agree with of being relative in laws and morals are blind to their own fault.
    Of course they may be so busy condemning others, they forgot the Rev. Graham said that.
    Who is actually being relative here?
Joe

 

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