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Way Off Topic: What Do Bankers and Gays Have in Common?

According to the Bible, both are mortal sinners:

  • Leviticus 25:37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
  • Psalms 28:8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
  • Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet
    every one of them doth curse me.

I realize this is terribly off topic, but with all the "religious" leaders making attacks against gays, I must wonder.... Why aren't they also attacking bankers?   Will the "religious" candidates refuse to accept campaign contributions from bankers?  If not, why not?

Or do "religious" leaders only abide by passages in the Bible that rile pre-existing bigotry? 

Do those of you who view gays as sinners (not in the sense that "We are all sinners," but in the sense that they are really bad sinners who will go to Hell unless they stop having sex) have a similar attitude about bankers?  If not, why not?

Could you be relying on the Bible to rationalize something that is visceral?  People relied on the Bible, many years ago, to justify racism.  Before that, slavery. 

Yet throughout the times of slavery and Jim Crow, bankers loaned money without reproach.  Why?

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