January 25, 2008

Hey, Michael Brown: Would you kill us if it meant Sabbath-breakers got a pass?

Just stumbled across this December post over at Warren Throckmorton’s blog:

Michael Brown responds to the Southern Poverty Law Center article on ex-gays

I posted yesterday about a Southern Poverty Law Center article, titled Straight Like Me, by Casey Sanchez, which blasted the ex-gay movement. In my post, I note several inaccurate reports. In this post, I provide a brief email interview with Michael Brown, president of the FIRE School of Ministry, who was named in a companion piece, Former Ex-gay Minister Speaks Out. I emailed Dr. Brown with some questions about these statements and he was very kind to respond quickly.

Throckmorton: In a recent SPLC article, you are referred to as giving a keynote at the latest Exodus Conference. This subject of this article asserts that you believe the Old Testament law should be followed regarding homosexuals. Is this your belief?

Brown: Absolutely not! I am not and have never been a reconstructionist or theonomist, and if we were to put practicing homosexuals to death, we would also have to put Sabbath breakers to death, among many others.

Note that Brown does not say, “Absolutely not! I am not and have never been a reconstructionist or theonomist,” period.

He qualifies his “absolutely not” with “if we were to put practicing homosexuals to death, we would also have to put Sabbath breakers to death, among many others.”

The only conclusion we can draw is that the only thing stopping Brown from advocating death for “practicing homosexuals” is that he hasn’t figured out how to justify singling out “practicing homosexuals” for execution without putting “Sabbath breakers” (”among many others”) to death as well.

Bad answer, Mike-O. Bad and scary.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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