02x03 Midterms quote, TWW
Sep. 19th, 2004 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
President Josiah Bartlet : Good. I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.
Dr. Jenna Jacobs : I don't say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does.
President Josiah Bartlet : Yes it does. Leviticus.
Dr. Jenna Jacobs : 18:22.
President Josiah Bartlet : Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I have you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of Staff Leo McGarry insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself or is it okay to call the police? Here's one that's really important because we've got a lot of sports fans in this town: touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? Think about those questions, would you? One last thing: while you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignorant Tight-Ass Club, in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits.
Wordy McFucking Word.
Dr. Jenna Jacobs : I don't say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does.
President Josiah Bartlet : Yes it does. Leviticus.
Dr. Jenna Jacobs : 18:22.
President Josiah Bartlet : Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I have you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of Staff Leo McGarry insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself or is it okay to call the police? Here's one that's really important because we've got a lot of sports fans in this town: touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? Think about those questions, would you? One last thing: while you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignorant Tight-Ass Club, in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits.
Wordy McFucking Word.
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Date: 2004-09-19 11:55 pm (UTC)Then again, the Bible teaches the Golden Rule, then also teaches God killing all the people who aren't doing what he told them to, so I guess I can see where you might get confused.
It was put out there as a thought: how society tends to pick and choose.
Look in a mirror.
Using religion to backup a social argument is spineless and indicates a "Well..just...because!" attitude. I'm sick of people going to church every Sunday and saying what good people they are, then going and standing outside abortion clinics and psychologically abusing women whose business is their own. They have no right to do that. It's criminal, and inhuman.
Thou shalt not murder? Wow, that really seems to be working. The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition...yep. Nice one.
Oh, and I'm sure making a friend cry is really Christian too.
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Date: 2004-09-20 01:08 am (UTC)And society does pick and choose, in very many creative and stupid ways, the above being just an example of it. And a freggin light hearted one at that. So simmer. The fuck. Down.
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Date: 2004-09-20 05:17 am (UTC)I just know how upset it made her, and that she seems to know you pretty well. So I figured you meant it. No harm done.
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