I made a comment there that I wish to share with Gentle Reader:
I have mixed thoughts on this -- that is, on the execution of that unfortunate young man, so long ago [a young man, little more than a boy as we moderns count these things, who was executed in colonial New England for beastiality].
On the one hand, not everything that is a gross (in multiple senses of the word) sin -- fully meriting death -- is necessarily something *we humans* should be executing people for doing. Most of this can be, and ought to be, left in God's hands.
Furthermore, not *every sin* that the Old Covenant commands the Israelites to execute people for committing is one that we, under the Covenant of Grace, ought to execute people for doing.
On the other hand, the fact that we, as a society, *don't* execute those who commit beastiality -- and, in fact, under the "liberal" corruption of Grace, we, as a society, do our best to pretend that nothing noteworthy is being done (until, of course, the leftists demand we celebrate it) -- goes far to explain why the "beastlovers" are emboldened, and why they will soon be demanding access to our children.
The same applies to, for instance, "out and proud" homosexuals -- it goes far to explain why such are emboldened, and why they are currently demanding, and getting, access to our children.
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When you stop executing people for things that the Bible demands you execute them for, before too long you generally start executing people for things that the Bible does not advocate. In Tennessee, there was one example where a man sold more than half a gram of cocaine and got sixty years in jail with no possibility of parole -- which is basically an effective death sentence, and also more than many murderers receive.
"When you stop executing people for things that the Bible demands you execute them for, before too long you generally start executing people for things that the Bible does not advocate."
Indeed.
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