Re: The Religious Rights' Unreal Understanding of Homo***uality:

Peter:
> 
> SkyEyes wrote:
> > On May 9, 1:24 pm, Peter Franks <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> buckeye wrote:
> >>> Thursday, May 08, 2008
> >>> The Religious Rights' Unreal Understanding of Homo***uality:
> >> Who/what is an example of the "Religious Right"?
> > 
> > John Hagee.  Jerry Falwell (who fortunately is no longer with us).
> > Pat Robertson.  Rod Paisley.  And a *host* of others.
> > 
> > Those are just the cult ringleaders.  Want examples of their political
> > lackeys?
> 
> What is unreal regarding their understanding of homo***uality?

Well, Rushdoony, the intellectual founder of Christian Reconstructionism
and the spiritual godfather, so to speak, of many of the leaders
of todays radical religious right, "understood" that all homo***uals
should be put to death.

But then Rushdoony understood a great many things.  To quote
from Wikipedia:


    In the book, he proposed that Old Testament law should be applied to
    modern society and that there should be a Christian theonomy, a
concept
    developed in his colleague Greg Bahnsen's controversial tome Theonomy
    and Christian Ethics, which Rushdoony heartily endorsed. In the
    Institutes, Rushdoony sup****ted the reinstatement of the Mosaic law's
    penal sanctions. Under such a system, the list of civil crimes which
    carried a death sentence would include homo***uality, adultery,
*****,
    lying about one's virginity, bestiality, witchcraft, idolatry or
    apostasy, public blasphemy, false prophesying, kidnapping, rape, and
    bearing false witness in a capital case.[9] Although sup****ting the
    separation of church and state at the national level, Rushdoony
    understood both institutions as under the rule of God,[10] and thus he
    conceived secularism as posing endless false antitheses, which his
    massive work addresses in considerable detail. In short, he sought to
    cast a vision for the reconstruction of society based on Christian
    principles. 

    The book was also critical of democracy. He wrote that "the heresy of
    democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state ...
    Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies." He elsewhere said
    that "Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is
    committed to spiritual aristocracy," and characterized democracy as
    "the great love of the failures and cowards of life."[5] 
    
    
-- cary