Mohler Still Foaming at the Mouth Over Newsweek

Baptist homo-hater and professional bigot, Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, still has his panties in a knot over the Newsweek article I discussed in a prior post which made a biblical case for gay marriage. Of course, one of Mohler's arguments against the Newsweek approach is that it would mean that Christians have basically been wrong for the better part of 20 centuries in understanding the Scripture. As if Christians have much of a record for being right over the centuries. And it is folks like Mohler who still do not accept the theory of evolution.

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Moreover, these are the same folks who for centuries said the Bible justified slavery, argued that the earth was flat, held that the Sun and universe revolved around the earth, etc. Yet Mohler would nonetheless have us believe that this time the Christianists' interpretation of the Bible is absolutely correct. Let's face it, the Catholic Church and other reactionary Christian elements including today's Southern Baptist Convention - which came into existence when the Baptist Church split over slavery so that Baptists in the South could own slaves - have largely never been right and it has taken science and the passage of centuries for them to concede they were wrong on a host of issue. Mohler suffers from insufferable hubris and acts as if he thinks HE is God most of the time. As with most rabid anti-gay wingnuts, one has to wonder why Mohler is so fixated on gay sex. Here are some samples of Mohler's whining:

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Newsweek’s recent cover story which seeks to make a “biblical case for gay marriage” runs directly counter to 2,000 years of Christian history that interprets Scripture as rejecting same-sex relations, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said Monday on National Public Radio’s program “Talk of the Nation.” Mohler, who serves as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, appeared on the show with Lisa Miller, senior faith reporter for Newsweek, who wrote the article in which she argues that the Bible is mostly silent about same-sex marriage and, therefore, does not condemn it.

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“Let’s face it, what the sum and substance of this cover story really attempts to do is to say that Christians have basically been wrong for the better part of 20 centuries in understanding the Scripture and that the vast majority of believers in this country are wrong in believing that same-sex marriage is prohibited by scriptural injunction,” Mohler said. “And that’s no understatement.

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“She (Miller) said you either believe…that [the Bible is] more or less a human book marked by history, and we correct it by our contemporary understanding,” Mohler said. “Or you believe as I believe, and as evangelical Christians and the most conservative believers in the Judeo-Christian traditions have always believed, that we have to understand and interpret the Scripture with the goal of obeying it.

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“There is no biblical case for gay marriage,” Mohler said. “The Bible knows what marriage is. And when she (Miller) says the issue is who can get married, you have to turn around and say, ‘You can’t possibly talk about that until you talk about what marriage is.’ And when you look at the Bible, you can’t make a case for marriage being anything other than heterosexual other than by turning [the Bible] on its head, which is what Newsweek tried to do in this cover story.

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As I have said before, Mohler and other gay obsessed self-hating Christianist homophobes like him need to get themselve a good male escort and satisfy their fixation on gay sex once and for all and then join the ranks of fraudulent preachers with Ted Haggard.