Bible study

A school in Australia is in a hot spot after it asked its students whether being gay is "the sickest sin" in a home assignment. Experts agree discrimination through such teaching leads to mental health issues and even suicide. A question in a later assignment asked what God said about homosexuality and pointed to Bible quotes for the answer, which calls it an "abomination".

In a HuffPo piece Lee Jefferson writes, "The Bible is a complicated collection of documents that was never meant to speak to our contemporary situation." But anti-gay groups often use the Bible to attack issues like marriage equality. He writes, "According to the gospels, Jesus never commented on same-sex practices; that fact certainly bears repeating to anyone criticizing the gay community on Christian grounds.

Our friends over at QUEERTY offer direction to Texas teachers, forced to implement Bible study into their classrooms. How about including fact-or-fiction on the syllabus?