The Importance of Reading the Biblical Text

When he was in high school and Kansas was going to be voting on a constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage. His dad pulled out his Bible and opened it to Genesis chapter 19 with the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. He said, well, you know, that's why we're against gay rights because here these men wanted to have sex with other men and they were punished for it. And I remember the time feeling like I don't, that doesn't feel quite right to me. Like, I don't really see the same thing there, but I didn't know enough. But then my dad had anha moment where he began to realize that some of the things