I ran into a pretty young thing that claims to be a prophet on The Huffington Post the other day. She also claims to be Miss Beverly Hills, which is a rather unique combination of hubris and narcissism to say the least. Lauren Ashley, a candidate at the up coming Miss California USA pageant declared on Fox News that God says homosexuals “shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.”
Pretty grisly stuff for a beauty pageant you would think, but gay bashing has become part of the program in California since Carrie Prejean won the crown with it last year. Playing the piano and singing were once the primary talents exhibited at these beauty extravaganzas, but those take a lot of work. Channeling the Almighty is much easier to pick up and apparently works just as well.
Miss Laura certainly has the beauty part down pat looking at the picture accompanying the Post’s story. It is a head and shoulders shot, so there is no way to evaluate her body. Her shoulders and upper arms are bare, however, indicating she is either wearing nothing or something that shows off her hills to best advantage.
The city of Beverly Hills said Miss Laura and her hills were nothing to do with them. The city “does not sponsor a beauty pageant and has no association with Miss California USA,” it was quoted as saying.
The drilling for sex look in Miss Nowhere Hill’s eyes is more temple prostitute than humble servant, but that’s religion these days. Abstinence makes the heart grow hotter so marry early and steam iron the sheets, you can always divorce him/her when things cool off. Boys on girls is a blessing, boys on boys is an abomination. The Bible doesn’t say anything about girls on girls – women were irrelevant when Leviticus was written. Nonetheless its quoters seem to take it for granted that girls will end up blood spattered too.
They take a lot for granted, as a matter of fact. They presume that God wrote Leviticus when scholars have proven beyond reasonable doubt that the book was pieced together over many years by several different writers. Those scholars also determined that each of the pieces was written to address a specific situation at a specific time in Jewish history. The stories have resonance in our time because they record God’s interaction with the people of Israel that formed the foundations of Western society.
None of his indicates that God approves of homosexuality today, only that it was not the issue being addressed in Leviticus or anywhere else in the Bible. We do know that Jesus Christ never directly addressed the subject, although he did touch on it indirectly in the Gospel of Luke. He cured a Roman centurion’s catamite of a terminal illness and then said of the soldier “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.”
Yes, the Bible story refers to the boy as “a slave whom he highly valued” and there is a remote possibility that he was simply good with horses. However, history is absolutely clear: Roman centurions’ most highly valued slaves were catamites. Jesus knew this but never broached the subject.
Miss Nowhere Hills apparently considers herself a better Christian than Jesus.
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