But this isn’t really about what you think god wants, is it? You’re using the bible as an excuse for your own prejudices, selectively quoting the parts you happen to agree with. The old testament also states that you’re not allowed to shave your beard and that you must stone adulterers and disobedient children. It forbids wearing cloth made out of a mix of wool and linen. It states that women who have their period must not be touched for seven days. So, how many disobedient children have you stoned recently?
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Look, it’s real simple.
The root of the problem is that the Religious Right has been completely incapable of enacting serious change in American social policy for going on 35 years now. They have at best nipped the fringes.
Only recently have they been able to organize and fund-raise efficiently, enough to get a couple of half-ass bills “banning” gay marriage.
Make no mistake: those aren’t long-term changes. Americans will hip to it in due time. Miscegenation used to be illegal for the same “OMG it’s yucky” reasons, too.
Anyway, the root of the problem is they can’t enact the changes they want – the total banning of abortion, mandatory reciting of the 10 Commandments by students, putting actual Biblical quotes into law – so they nip at the fringes and exploit the prejudices of people that sometimes aren’t even religious in order to get something, anything passed.
So it’s not that they necessarily want to have children stoned to death, it’s that they can’t seem to accomplish anything. So they get what they can and that gives them the strength to stay the course.
