well, what are they waiting for? They should walk the walk and start stoning some queers. Or, shut the fuck up. These cowards want someone else to do their killing for them.
Edited to add: I guess they don’t know about this internet thing, anyone who quotes Leviticus needs to answer for ALL of what it says there, not just the parts about gays.
What I think is pointless is countering one insane biblical quotation with another biblical quotation. Quoting the damn thing just reinforces the notion that the Bible has something relevant to say about our lives. It really doesn’t.
For the Bible-spouting hordes, we should just tell them outright that their book is meaningless, and they are idiots to pay attention to it (or at least to the cherry-picked bits they love to quote). They won’t believe it, but then again they won’t listen when you point out the contradictory passages either.
Nope, not even close. There’s no “call to action” just a statement of belief. Now if the sign read something like “Kill All Homosexuals”, there might be something actionable.
What isn’t a “death worthy” crime in that barbaric book of yours? I sure hope none of your flock has to work on Sundays…DEATH! Or eat cheeseburgers, pork or shellfish?..DEATH! Or being a virgin woman raped in a city…DEATH! Anyone…ANYONE who follows the rules of Leviticus are true monsters and to hell with all of them.
It’s true that there’s a narrow exception to the First Amendment for incitement to imminent lawless action. In this case, there’s no imminence; even under the worst reading of the guy’s speech, he’s arguing for lawless action at some vague future time, which is constitutionally protected under Hess v. Indiana. And as counter_coulter stated, there’s no direction to action at all.
Let him go to the ISIS controlled territory where some people think that Christianity is a crime punishable by death. A month in an ISIS prison and the good shepherd might reconsider his reading of the First Amendment and Jefferson’s Wall of Separation.
Yeah, well eating pork is a death worthy crime under Leviticus but I don’t see the parish giving up ribs and pulled park BBQ anytime soon.
I thought that Christians believe that the New Testament overruled the Old Testament when it came to old testament crimes and punishments, like kosher laws, and that Jesus preached love, forgiveness, tolerance, and not judging others, which would that the “crime” here is intolerance and sitting in judgment of homosexuals.
But the evangelicals on the right believe every word in the bible is the word of God, absolutely the truth, and the world hasn’t advanced since Paul. For them spending your time pointlessly debating anachronistic biblical content is what Jesus calls us to do along with judging our neighbors.
By the same token, we should be stoning disobedient children to death (Deuteronomy 21:18-21):
18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.