Quote of the Day

A viewer of The 700 Club recently put this question to Pat Robertson: "If America was founded as a Christian nation, why did we allow slavery?"

"Like it or not, if you read the Bible, in the Old Testament, slavery was permitted," Robertson responded.  "We have moved in our conception of the value of human beings until we realized that slavery was terribly wrong."  (Pat was half-right: Slavery was permitted -- slavery was endorsed -- in the Old Testament and the New Testament.)

LGBT Americans aren't asking Christians to do anything that Christians haven't done before.  Christians are simply being asked to, once again, "move in [their] conception of the value of human beings" -- in this instance, human beings who happen to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.

-- Dan Savage, American Savage, p. 274-275