Guest Blogger  The Use and Abuse of Scripture for Political
Purposes  Filed By Guest Blogger | March 14, 2010 10:00 AM |
comments  Filed in: Living Tags: Bible, interpretation, old
testament, religion, renato lings, sexual, sodomy  Editors'
Note: Guest blogger Father John McNeill is a pioneer in the gay
liberation movement. John helped found Dignity New York City, a
spiritual support group for gay and lesbian Catholics, in 1972.
In 1976 he published The Church and the Homosexual, the first
major theological critique of traditional church condemnation of
lesbian and gay relations. In 2007 he was awarded The National
Gay and Lesbian Taskforce lifetime achievement award "for
leading the way in understanding that being gay is a gift from
God."  McNeill.JPGThe recent effort of evangelical pastor Martin
Sscampa, under the tutelage of American Evangelicals, to pass a
"kill the gays" bill in the Uganda parliament and the extensive
persecution of GLBT people throughout eastern Africa is based
primarily on a highly que