why does the australian christian lobby enjoy a privileged position in public debate? | jeff sparrow /

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In an era in which political parties occupy lost their automatic hold on their constituency,a small cadre of reactionaries can exert an outsized influence “There are really only seven passages in the Bible that refer directly to homosexual behaviour, and none of them are associated with Jesus.”
That’s Davis Lose from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. Lose goes on to contrast those handful of verses with the more than 300 passages urging believers to care for the poor and to fight for social justice.
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Source: theguardian.com

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