Gaffe of the Century! NYT Says St. Paul Ordered Christians to ‘Execute’ Homosexuals

Breitbart ^ | June 19, 2016 | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

[NYer]

With remarkable insouciance, NYT writers Jeremy W. Peters and Lizette Alvarez blithely make reference to “a Bible verse from Romans that calls for the execution of gays,” meaning Saint Paul’s letter to the Romans 1:18-32.

As anyone who has ever read the New Testament knows, Saint Paul never permits that Christians should commit any violence whatsoever against homosexuals, but the Times editors apparently thought that fact-checking with the original text was superfluous or that readers were too ignorant to check for themselves.

The Times report, titled “After Orlando, a Political Divide on Gay Rights Still Stands,” follows on the fatal shooting of 49 people in the Pulse nightclub by a 29-year-old Muslim who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. In the wake of the attack, many have tried to compare Christian beliefs regarding the morality of homosexuality with those of Islam, in an apparent attempt to make Christians guilty by association.

The biblical passage in question actually speaks of God’s anger toward sinners who reject God despite the abundance of evidence for his existence in creation. It says that those who failed to honor God “became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were darkened.”

Saint Paul continues: “Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves.”

“For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error,” he wrote.

[IrishBrigade]

Gaffe? I’d say columny

that’ quite clever...a conflation of ‘column’ and ‘calumny’ regarding a NYT writing....

[Oratam]

Entirely unintentional . . . but it does describe the journalistic style employed by the NYT!

[MinuteGal]

Will all the evangelical leaders and Catholic bishops, etc. publicly take the NYSlimes to task for this calumny as we conservatives do?

Leni

[humblegunner]

a people that chooses depravity over truth cannot receive that intervention; they will reject it.

And those would be those same people that don't think Fuddy was killed
by Ninja Frogmen and the Obama was born on Mars to Barbara Stanwyck and Will Smith.

Or have y'all got some new parents for him this week?