Wednesday, December 26

Combating the Bible's "clobber passages"

For those of you interested in combating the unfavorable Bible texts thrown your way, check out this online magazine for GLBT Christians:

http://whosoever.org/bible/


The negative or critical e-mails I've received advise me to read my Bible. Specifically, I've been urged to read at least one or all of the six passages we as GLBT Christians know as the "clobber passages". These are verses, we're told, where God condemns homosexuality in no uncertain terms.

I have read my Bible, and I've paid close attention to those "clobber passages." So have many Bible scholars. We all agree that nowhere in the Bible are same-sex committed and loving relationships condemned. It's just not there. Instead, the Bible holds much joy, comfort and love for GLBT Christians willing to wade into its pages and hear the loving voice of God.

This section of Whosoever explores the 6 "clobber passages" and several other verses used as "prooftexts" of homosexuality's condemnation...........