By Ken Marks[Originally posted on The Scratching Post, April 26, 2016]. Republished here by permission of the author.]
I want to introduce a new word – or repurpose an old one; I’m not sure which. The word is “bibliopath,” a person whose thinking is disordered by blind reverence for a book or a particular interpretation of that book. In most cases, the book is a sacred text, like the Holy Bible or the Quran.
In America, most bibliopaths live in Red States, with a heavy concentration in the South. They think of homosexuality as an abomination; that’s the biblical label for it. I don’t think the Bible has a classification for changing one’s gender, but doing so repudiates what God has made, so I guess it’s an abomination, too. Gays who marry defile both themselves and a holy institution. They double down on sin.
