Harold Myerson’s piece entitled “God and His Gays” in the Washington Post, in which he addresses the blog post last week by the Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, is troubling and thought-provoking — but in a good way, I think. I suggest you read the entire piece because there’s not a wasted sentence, but here are a couple of excerpts:
…Mohler’s deity, in short, is the God of Double Standards: a God who enforces the norms and fears of a world before science, a God profoundly ignorant of or resistant to the arc of American history, which is the struggle to expand the scope of the word “men” in our founding declaration that “all men are created equal.” This is a God who in earlier times was invoked to defend segregation and, before that, slavery…
…Mohler’s conundrum: how to reconcile a God who creates homosexuals with a God who condemns practicing homosexuals to hell? A mysterious God may be well and good, but a capricious or contradictory God can inspire so much doubt that He threatens the credibility of the entire religious enterprise…
