Eveybody would have been stoned by now

There is usually an issue between the one in which an article appears in Newsweek and the one that contains the letters written in response to it. Not this time. When you get 40,000 letters in response to the article on the Bible and gay marriage there is no need to wait another week. Many of those letters were in response to a campaign waged by the American Family Association. Newsweek printed 7 of the letters.

Against:

* The Bible doesn't define marriage, natural order does. The Bible only confirms it.

* You can't pick and choose from the Bible, you must accept it all or none. I believe in God's Plan and I don't judge my gay friends. Actually, Fundies do pick and choose. This writer doesn't say how he would have voted on a gay marriage ban.

* Christians are taught love the sinner, hate the sin. This article adds: condone the sin and write laws to validate it. Christians, Muslims, & Jews agree that homosexuality is a sin. Stop trying to rewrite the Bible. I dispute the original slogan because it is impossible to do.

* Two men do not make a mom. Kids need a mother and father. This is based on research that did not include gay couples and thus is a false conclusion.

* The author got facts wrong on what the Bible says and is just vilifying Christians.

For:

* "In my own family, if one were to apply biblical proscriptions, every single person would have been stoned by now."

* Thanks for a much needed rebuke of the fundamentalists.