{"id":12300,"date":"2020-06-16T14:27:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12300"},"modified":"2020-06-16T14:27:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:27:38","slug":"dismal-theology-related-quote-for-the-day-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12300","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Franklin Graham is saddened<\/a> by the Supreme Court’s decision that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 covers gay and transgender people, too.<\/p>\n

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I find this to be a very sad day. I don\u2019t know how this is going to protect<\/span> us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My best guess is that organizations established to promote religion — churches, say — will see no change at all; their exercise of religion remains protected by the First Amendment. And most large companies and organizations made peace with our evolving understanding of sexuality and its origins a long time ago.<\/p>\n

As near as I can tell, the most-affected by this decision is likely to be the small-town merchant, the pious diner– or hardware store-owner, dismayed to learn that Francis used to be … Francis<\/i>. But society has no duty to indulge or protect that owner’s ignorance; it does<\/i> have a duty, so far as possible, to protect Francis from ignorant malice.<\/p>\n

No foul.<\/p>\n

Disputes of this sort have their origin in the Christian marketing lie that the Bible is “inerrant” and, honestly, I marvel that it persists. After all, the errors begin with Genesis’<\/i> creation tale, through the story of the Fall, to the conflicting accounts of the discovery of Jesus’ empty tomb, to the implausible claim that millions of horse-mounted warriors will clash at Armageddon. It’s all nonsense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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