Lock Up The UnGodly...Like Bryan Fischer

You know, it's funny, and sad, too. Just when you think people can sink no lower, a door is opened to reveal they have an entire subbasement of hate for the LGBT community.

Case in point, wingnut, asshat, fucktard, and American Family Association radio host Bryan Fischer, in answering a letter regarding homosexuality, HIV/AIDS, and the Bible, believes homosexuals should be locked up. in prison. To undergo some sort of gay detox.

Fischer:

It might be worth noting that what I actually suggested is that we impose the same sanctions on those who engage in homosexual behavior as we do on those who engage in intravenous drug abuse, since both pose the same kind of risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. I'd be curious to know what you think should be done with IV drug abusers, because whatever it is, I think the same response should be made to those who engage in homosexual behavior.

If you believe that what drug abusers need is to go into an effective detox program, then we should likewise put active homosexuals through an effective reparative therapy program.

And, Bryan, what would suggest we do with the children who are HIV+? The straight women and men? is it just "The Gays" you want to lock up because, well, we all know "The Gays" are here simply to spread AIDS to the world.

Fischer:

Secondly, I'm afraid you're simply wrong about the Bible's perspective on the law and homosexuality. Paul lists quite explicitly in 1 Timothy 1:8-11 the actions and behaviors that are the proper concern of the law:

"Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine..."

The bottom line here is that, biblically, those "who practice homosexuality" should come under the purview of the law just as much as those who take people captive in order to sell them into slavery.You express a belief in the Scriptures, and I trust your confidence in Scripture is not selective. If you believe all Scripture is inspired, then you are compelled to accept that legal sanctions may appropriately be applied to those who engage in homosexual behavior.

Interestingly enough, Fischer just pulls out the words "men who practice homosexuality" as those he deems unworthy of walking free. Yet, according to Bible verses he quoted, those punishable by law are also the unholy and the profane, people who hit their parents--those parents who hit their children are apparently safe--liars, and perjurers.

I think if Bryan Fischer were to take that Bible verse literally, and all of it, not just the pieces that apply to his own sense of hatred for the gay community, we'd have more prisons in this country than we have homes.

But then wingnuts like Bryan Fischer don't take the entire Bible seriously; they only take the few sentences that talk about homosexuality to heart. For the people like Bryan, I might suggest that if you want to live by the word of the Bible then live by all the words, not just those that you deem appropriate.