Another Sin Goes Big Time


If you happen hear reports from golf tournaments you will hear the word "leader board." That refers to which golfers are leading in the tournament. To me the sins fundamentalist Christians are talking about changes from time to time, old ones are dropped from condemnation and new ones show up and stay to be condemned for a while until they, too, are not longer interesting enough to condemn. I call the the current sins up for big time condemnation at any given time the "sin leader board."

I'm sure the sin leader board had beer listed back before prohibition. When I was growing up in rural Iowa there were virtually no tractors in the fields on Sunday--on the leader board. In my church back then the leader board included playing cards and dancing. We knew there were gay people but it was not on the board. Homosexuality made the board in the early 1980's. Working on Sunday and beer had slipped off. 

More recently marriage of gay people was high on the list of the worst sins. It has or will soon drop off. Not to worry, however, the leader board has a new sin highlighted in flashing neon. It is gender bending, the clouding of differences between male and female. The Christian sites express outrage over any person claiming to be partly male and partly female. There is a special place in hell for those who change their gender from one to the other.

Why is it gender sins make the leader board? Why or how does it affect me or my life if a person across the street changes gender? Oh, it might mean that person used the women's room before and now is in the men's room. Not a problem.

Is it less safe for women if their rest rooms are used by women who have transitioned from men? So far as we know, no. 

The sin leader board, then, is for the purpose of bigotry. If there is a group not liked by some Christians sin is there to help justify prejudice. 

It was there during slavery and segregation, it is there today.

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