Accepting Quote by John Shelby Spong

The Bible is not a book that's an attack on gay people. It's not a book written to attack gay people.

— Kirk Franklin

The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible…

— Ian Mckellen

The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible…

— Paul Monette

Because most journalists are secular, they can be gullible in looking to the religious right as arbiters of biblical interpretation, especially as it relates…

— Kirsten Powers

“As we've seen way too many times throughout history, the meaning of the Bible can be twisted and manipulated by anyone with an agenda.…

— Kaya Oakes

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

— Roger Ross Williams

“The Bible takes a stand on every major issue we deal with today from abortion, gay marriage, self-defense, alcohol, sex, private property to pretty…

— Mark Cahill

The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible…

— John Shelby Spong

The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are…

— Ben Shapiro

“When did it become okay for the people who hold the Bible to be God’s absolute truth to choose which parts of it to…

— Juliann Rich

But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form…

— J. I. Packer

“But big headlines in the papers every day, and whatever the newspaper and the radio say in this country, that's the people Bible.”

— Samuel Selvon