Parker: Gay People's Lives Endangered by Phil Robertson

Syndicated Columnist Kathleen Parker weighed in on the Phil Robertson controversy Tuesday, suggesting that Robertson's comments actually "endanger" the lives of homosexuals.

Robertson’s blunt talk caused a stir not because he was delivering tablets from the burning bush but because he was clearly speaking outside his wheelhouse to the detriment of people whose equal rights — even their very lives — are endangered by such talk. Robertson may “love the sinner,” but you sure can’t tell.

But it isn't just Robertson, whom she mocks as a hick, that Parker has a problem with. She singles out "fundamentalist Christians, for whom biblical literalism is a virtue" for scorn, wondering why they "didn’t seem to care much about the vile, X-rated imagery he used to make his point to GQ concerning the relative merits of human apertures for sexual gratification."

But while accusations about Christian hypocrisy are nothing new, Parker extends her accusation to a more novel target - God himself.

...it is tempting to note that God was rather selective in his outrage back then. Furious with homosexuals, he seemed to have no problem with Lot, whom he saved, when Lot offered his virgin daughters to townsmen who were demanding to “know” the angels hanging with Lot that God had sent to destroy Sodom.

Having duly judged the judge of all of mankind, it seems odd that Parker would then employ "Christianity" as an argument for her position, but that is exactly what she does, claiming that support of gay marriage is both "The Christian, as well as the constitutional" position.

She offers no citation for either claim.

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