An Arizona pastor who delivered the “Why I Hate Barack Obama” sermon was confronted by about 100 protesters Sunday outside his church near Phoenix.

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“It’s hard to believe we could have someone of a religious nature
wishing our president was dead,” said protester William Crumb to KNXV-TV
in Phoenix.

## Made up ? I think not. Presumably a pastor who, according to himself, hates Obama, knows what he means by the word. These people do exist. To pray for someone’s death & damnation goes far beyond what is usually meant by “strong principled opposition”. Though one could call the hatred of the Nazis for the Jews “strong principled opposition”.  The pastor’s “strong principled opposition” to Obama is hate of Obama, nothing less. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Gospel – to try to rescue hate by calling it love only succeeds in dragging rown love until it becomes impossible to distinguish from hate. From such “love”, may God defend all of us !

You accuse Dudley of not having a thesis when his thesis is quite clear: “my childhood community’s approach to gay rights—though well intentioned—is riddled with self-serving double standards.”
He then provides four specific arguments to support that thesis.

You accuse Dudley of simplistic proof texting by showing how the only evidence we have of Paul’s theology of nature is one that’s completely at odds with modern Christian thought, and chalk this up to his assumed ignorance of supposedly great scholars like Robert Gagnon, neglecting to mention that even Gagnon acknowledges the 1 Cor. reference poses a problem for appropriating Pauls theology of “nature” in romans 1. 

You accuse Dudley of manipulating the Bible to support gay marriage when he doesn’t argue in favor of gay marriage at all (re-read his thesis). 

And, most laughably of all, you reference a random blog post by an undergraduate student at Louisiana Tech, who makes a claim with no evidence to support it, to undermine a conclusion that’s not at all controversial to those familiar with the relevant scholarship (i.e. Jovinian’s views on the equality of marriage and family were indeed considered heresy, even if those weren’t his only heretical views).

Your post adequately demonstrate why mainstream America is growing increasingly tired of Christians. Like most evangelicals, you are more interested in defending your party line than you are in serious conversation. 

That you accuse Dudley of being a bad writer when your blog post reads like a 10th grader’s stream-of-consciousness journal assignment reveals the true reason for this blog post, which is not to engage in serious dialogue but simply to smear a person (who has much more academic credibility than you do) who challenges your comfortable beliefs. I want the last 10 minutes of my life back. 

Of course, that doesn’t mean Dale’s argument is uncontroversial. I don’t mean to say that there aren’t scholars who would disagree, and you’re completely right that we could play the “you have your scholars I have mine” game, but I still don’t think it’s fair to accuse Dudley of bad scholarship based on the word of a random blogger (I don’t know the blogger’s credentials, but he appears to be an undergraduate student at Louisiana Tech) versus a conclusion supported by the former chair of the religious studies department at Yale.