Quote for the day

"Well, people only pretend to read the Bible. Their eyes glaze over and they remember a couple of passages that they ignore when they feel like ignoring it, like 'turn the other cheek', and then when they don't like somebody, they go flipping through this massive book full of ancient desert prejudices looking for something to justify it. Just like they justified slavery using the Bible, because there are passages of the Bible that justify slavery, including passages that justify selling your daughters into sex slavery -- right there, that's Biblical, those are Biblical family values -- and so we have this selective sort of reading problem with the Bible. If we're going to enforce it all, stone the gay people, but, you know, stone the adulterers first, starting with Newt Gingrich, and Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain -- and then by the time it's my turn, they'll be out of rocks."

Dan Savage