Nova:
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"That's really horrible. I am all for people's freedom to disagree with and disapprove of homosexuality, and openly lobby against things like homosexual marriage, but the death penalty for gays is simply ridiculous. I was raised fundamentalist Christian and I have never come across the view that gays should be executed, even among the most conservative Christians I've met. Its especially disturbing coming from Americans, people of a supposedly free country. It seems like you would prefer something akin to the Taliban."
Nova, Jefferson thinks that way because he is a Ultradispensationalist. They believe that the writings of St. Paul are all that apply to Christians today. So, they do not take the whole counsel of God in mind. Therefore they can ignore the sayings of Jesus because those verses apply only to Jews. For example take Matthew 5:43-48:
"43“You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’ 44“But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46“For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47“If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48“Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
They can take what Jesus said with a grain of salt or ignore it all together. I consider it damnable for someone to call himself a Christian yet ignore obedience to the teachings of Jesus. In that area Ultradispensationalist are aberrant and cultic in their beliefs. So, when you read the extreme harshness in what Jefferson says, you have to understand that he is saying it through his denominational bias.