Classic Christian Right Hypocrisy

Jeremy at Good As You has exposed some interesting hypocrisy on the part of professional homo-hater, Matt Barber. Matt Barber is just downright obsessed with gays and gay sex - leading me to suspect he's really a self-hating closet case. He cites the Bible verses from Leviticus almost incessantly to condemn gays and same sex relationships. It turns out, however, that Matt is a hypocrite who wants to have his cake and eat it too as it were: He wants to apply selective Bible versus against gays literally but then ignore them if they are inconvenient to his personal life. Particularly, the condemnation of divorce found in the New Testament since it turns out that Mr. Barber is on his second wife. In case Matt has forgotten the applicable verses from Chapter 10 of the Gospel of Matthew:

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"Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery."

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Worse yet for Barber, Chapter 20 of Leviticus says this about what happens to adulterers:

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If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

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Using his own reasoning, it looks like Matt Barber should plan on burning in Hell with all us gays. As I have said before, the Christianists cannot have it both ways. Either they apply the "inerrant" Bible literally in all cases or they do not. By their own purported rules, picking and choosing what one likes - which is the accusation often made against gays by Christianists - is not an option. Since evangelical fundamentalists have the highest divorce rate, the case for their rank hypocrisy as a group is well established. Unfortunately, whenever they begin their anti-gay propaganda based on "deeply held religious beliefs" no one in the mainstream media ever calls them on their own hypocrisy. Demanding that they explain their own hypocritical behavior and the fact that they do not practice what they preach against others isn't being anti-religion. It is merely honest journalism and exposing hypocrites.