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Falwell keeps repeating it because it's the one and only statement that's permitted to be spoken on TV that in any way reflects negatively on homosexuality.

For that reason, I can live with it, realizing its roots lie not in the Bible, but in politically-correct airtime.

Even abortion is not as sacrosanct as the gay agenda, though they both spring from the same desire to exterminate life.

Falwell keeps repeating it because it's the one and only statement that's permitted to be spoken on TV that in any way reflects negatively on homosexuality. For that reason, I can live with it, realizing its roots lie not in the Bible, but in politically-correct airtime.

I really don't think Falwell actually holds much love for unrepentant sodomites, do you?

As far as your idea that this is the only way such a Christian condemnation of sodomy can be voiced, you're just wrong. A number of Southern Baptists have spoken out without engaging in "hate speech" but laid out a biblical position pretty clearly. I could find threads detailing two such appearances by Southern Baptists in the last year alone.

I don't think Falwell trying to paraphrase some (imagined) scripture actually helps anyone, either Christian or sodomite or sheeple. Sometimes, you don't get to sit on the fence. Falwell has shot his mouth off on plenty of other occasions so I doubt he's that circumspect here. And he was proven wrong on those too. I can detail them but you should recall his original pronouncements on AIDS as God punishing homosexuals and his statements (with the even stupider Robertson) on 9/11 being a punishment from God for abortion and sodomy and which they both acted like they didn't know how those remarks got made. He was wrong about those. And he's wrong about this. Personally, I'd prefer that Falwell, a latecomer to the Southern Baptist convention, would leave it. I don't think he brings much to it or that he will benefit much from it. But given the current condition of his state convention, he may not do too much damage.