Previously, I posted an article entitled “The Misuse of Scripture to Abuse Homosexuals.” Today I am posting a necessary corollary to it: “Justifications for Intolerance in the Christian Community.” In reading it, I am presupposing that you have read the former article or that you are conversant with modern scriptural scholarship concerning the Old and New Testament passages routinely quoted against homosexuality. This new article considers the reasons given by Church Fathers, popes and councils, and moralists for declaring homosexuality immoral. I have identified five common reasons and have given plenty of examples illustrating each one. I conclude that these condemnations have no more claim to infallible Tradition than does the intolerance shown for nearly two millenia toward Jews (indeed, I give a brief overview of that intolerance to set the context for intolerance toward homosexuality).

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