In October 2009, Legacy Church and Pastor Steve Smothermon co-hosted an event with the infamous hate group leader and holocaust revisionist, Scott Lively. Lively is also widely held to be one of the American ""catalysts,"" as author Jeff Sharlet put it, of the wave of terror against African Gay people. I think that Proverbs would label him as having a ""froward mouth.""
Bringing Lively to your church shows a remarkable lack judgment...to understate.
I'm sure the pastor and congregation profess great love for ""homosexuals,"" but...I don't see it as Golden Rule love...instead, it looks to me to be a love of feeling superior to ""the other."" A love of having a handy scapegoat, a love of salacious gossip about other people's sex lives.
The Bible condemns idolatry, and the ""homosexual"" clobber verses he seems to love so, are, within both historical and intratextual contexts, about fertility cult idolatrous practices that included sexual rituals; rituals involving laying with a cross dressing priests or temple sex worker, in order to offer up one's ""seed"" to Molloch or other fertility god or goddess.
This is not controversial, and Leviticus 18 makes the fertility cult context plain. ""Do not do as the Egyptians and Canaanites do.""
They have nothing to do with modern adult, consensual relationships, nothing to do with modern knowledge of our sexuality and conception; but I would think, do warn people today about worshiping fertility and procreation at the expense of the Golden Rule.
I see that Legacy's school uses the highly dubious Bob Jones and A Beka curriculum as their core material. I have an A Beka science text that I bought at a thrift store. I wonder if A Beka is still teaching grade school children that humans aren't mammals, despite having many of the same characteristics (such as all of them.)
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