Surprise: Some “Christians” have a hierarchy of sins

In the early 1980s, during the years I was reading the Bible, Fundamentalist Anita Bryant was shrilling against homosexuality all over the (radio) airwaves.

I noticed this because the Bible testifies that God requires righteousness across the board. Why, therefore, would any Protestant elevate one sin above another?

For decades this baffled me. Finally, after I’d noticed many other things about the apparent beliefs of far right-wing “Christian” Protestants, I realized that in one respect they resembled Catholics. The right-wingers have a hierarchy of sins; cardinal and venial.

Among this bunch of “believers,” homosexuality is one of the cardinal sins. Most others are apparently venial, including murder and rape. There’s no accounting for this, except that it seems to be one of the absurdities of false religion.