The Good Feed Blog editors share boxing champion Manny Pacquiao’s gay-bashing comments.
LA Weekly’s Dennis Romero reports the boxer quoted the Bible:
“If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.” - Leviticus 20:13.
But Manny also expanded on that with his own words:
God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other. It should not be of the same sex so as to adulterate the altar of matrimony, like in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah of Old.
The champ and frequent performer on HBO’s new reality show “On Roach” is already feeling the fallout: An interview with Mario Lopez on “Extra” scheduled for this afternoon at Los Angeles’s The Grove has been cancelled.
Nike, McDonald’s and Hewlett-Packard are other Pacquiao sponsors.
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Nothing in the Leviticus quote says that the two people should be in love with each other. Nothing in that quote says that women can’t have sex with each other or get married to each other.
In fact, I recommend an absolutely literalist fundamentalist interpretation of that quote. Word for word literally what it says. If you’re a man, don’t “lie with” another man, which means as long as you don’t have male-male sex lying down, God doesn’t mind. Don’t do it “as one lies with a woman,” which means as long as you don’t have sex with a man who is exactly like a woman, God doesn’t mind. If the man you are having sex with essentially IS a woman, then no problem there, either.
His quote of the Bible and his interpretation are at odds with each other.
Unless, of course, maybe we aren’t meant to take the quote literally…..
P.S. He will need to renounce his McDonald’s sponsorship in light of Leviticus. McDonald’s serves meat and dairy in the same container and using the same utensils, they serve pork products, and McDonald’s employees regularly shave their faces, which are also “abominations” under Leviticus. I assume the boxer will soon issue an announcement quoting those verses as well?
It says the same thing about incest, adultery, and premarital sex. People tend to ignore those parts.
Don’t forget the prohibition on polyester blends:
“do not put on a garment woven with two different kinds of thread” Leviticus 19:19
I’ll never understand the people who use the bible to back up discriminatory beliefs. The fact remains that the New Testament contains four gospels of infinite acceptance and forgiveness, and yet this is skipped in favor of a selective draconian reading of the old testament.
The man gets hit in the head for a living.
Mark: “The man gets hit in the head for a living.”
Apparently, one of the blows created a bigot.
Sorry, poor taste of a joke.
Yeah. The word you were looking for was “divot”. They are easily confused.
But back to what you were saying – the defense attiorney the SSG Bales, the guy who killed those 17 people in Afghanistan, is going to elan on the issue of head trauma and psychotropic drugging of troops in theater. So it does happen.
CJ Werleman @rationalists tweeted this:
“Tattooed covered boxer Manny Pacquiao says,”Gays should be put to death because Bible says.” Leviticus 19:28 says no tattoos. Any questions?”
Excellent. I forgot about that one.
Don’t get me wrong, the man is an ass, but I recommend this article from Salon, discussing the misquotes from the original interview and in the LA Weekly article: Manny Pacquiao doesn’t want you dead.
Thank you for that article. I highlights the facts that tabloid journalism is still very popular.
I really don’t get why we go to people like sports-stars and celebrities for their opinions on stuff like this. It make sense to question politicians since they’re the ones who have the power to create policy, but a boxer?
I’m sure there’s plenty of homophobic actors, singers and athletes. I’m also sure that there’s plenty of homophobic bartenders, beauticians, welders, sales staff and whatever else. Why not interview them?
Not that it’s ok to say you think gay people deserve to die, but the source of the statement isn’t particularly troubling.
From what I understand Manny didn’t actually he wants gays put to death. The link at the top of this article has been edited to correct that.
But even though he may not have said that it sitll appears that he is using the bible to claim that homosexuality is wrong and that’s a problem.
Interestingly, some people use that same chapter of the Bible to claim that sex (not just procreation) between close adult relatives is wrong. That part is from 3,500 years ago when such was common in many cultures.
Just to put some context around the issue.
What is a Christian doing quoting the Torah as normative anyway? St. Paul gets pretty harsh on that subject.