CNN Reviews the Christian Hypocrisy on Homosexuality

Prior to the passage of the marriage equality legislation in New York, CNN's Kyra Phillips interviewed Jonathan Dudley, who authored an op-ed on CNN's faith blog asserting that opponents of gay marriage were hypocritical, using the Bible to defend their own values. Dudley is a graduate of Yale's Divinity School and the author of Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics.

Dudley says that the religious right is riddled with self-serving double standards. He says that that the Bible does not support same sex marriage, but that Christians ignore other passages of the Bible when making arguments against homosexuality.

"Yeah, I keep thinking if I took the Bible word for word," Phillips joked, "that I'd be stoned for planting strawberries next to my corn and I would be my … My husband would be my master."

Dudley says that you cannot take a book that was written thousands of years ago and apply it to our culture in 2011.

D. Beeksma

One of the growing crowd of American "nones" herself, Deborah is a prolific writer who finds religion, spirituality and the impact of belief (and non-belief) on culture inspiring, fascinating and at times, disturbing. She hosts the God Discussion show and handles the site's technical work. Her education and background is in business, ecommerce and law.

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