Dr. Michael Brown of the Concord, N.C. based Coalition of Conscience, the man and organization responsible for the “Can you be gay and Christian?” forum in mid-September, appeared as a guest on Air America Radio’s Thom Hartmann Show yesterday (see the Hartmann Show homepage here).

Needless to say, the exchange was feisty.

While Dr. Brown was busy extolling his love of gay people all while condemning them with the broad brush of Levitical code, Thom Hartmann was busy pointing out all the other things Leviticus prohibits. While some of Hartmann’s points were arguable on a theological point, he did make some very good points.

The best is when Hartmann caught Dr. Brown in a huge contradiction.

When Hartmann brought up the fact that Leviticus 18 (where the so-called prohibition against so-called homosexuality is found) also prohibits a man from sleeping in the same bed as his wife. Dr. Brown said (paraphrasing), “Well, of course, I think that sleeping with your wife while she is menstruating is a bad thing.” He was immediately cut off. Hartmann responded (paraphrasing), “Hold on… Wait up. So now you are going from Leviticus 18 being a universal moral code of condemnations and prohibitions to something just being a bad thing?”

I loved it. Honestly, I’ve never heard Dr. Brown so flustered.

You can listen to the segment here. Dr. Brown is on for the first 15 or so minutes and the rest of the first hour includes comments from callers.

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