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Bluenorthwest

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5. Paul did the NT anti gay texts, but there is a similar list to go with his verses because he also
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 05:11 PM
Jan 2013

forbade women to speak in public, ask a question of anyone other than her husband, to dress in any expensive clothing or clothing intended to draw attention to her looks. He wrote that slaves should obey their masters with joy, the master being God's earthly proxy. It goes on like this.
Jesus, not a word about it. But the NT is not immune from anti gay verses nor does it break the magic rule that each and every Biblical author who wrote against gay people also wrote in favor of slavery. And yet people quote those verses and pretend the next one does not say you can sell your daughters or some other horrific thing.

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