On the defense, digging that hole, where they belong.

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Thu Dec 11, 2008 at 05:14:08 AM EST

Some excerpts from a recent Christian Post article (emphases mine):


Media Misconceptions on Bible, Homosexuality
By Lillian Kwon   
Tue, Dec. 09 2008 03:35 PM EST
In the aftermath of the passage of California's Proposition 8, Newsweek and Hollywood are the latest players to launch their attacks on traditional marriage supporters and the biblical case against homosexuality.

And Christians are taking issue with the misconceptions, factual errors and holes in the arguments being presented in popular public spheres.

"Religious objections to gay marriage are rooted not in the Bible at all, then, but in custom and tradition," [Lisa Miller writes in Newsweek's current cover story "The Religious Case for Gay Marriage"] "The Bible was written for a world so unlike our own, it's impossible to apply its rules, at face value, to ours."

Rejecting Miller's arguments, [Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission] said the Bible clearly prescribes marriage as heterosexual, citing passages in Genesis, where God pairs Adam and Eve...