The accusation is "Christians take certain biblical condemnations seriously while ignoring others." R. Albert Mohler, Jr., the President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, responds:
Are conservative Christians hypocritical and selective when it comes to the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality? With all that the Bible condemns, why the focus on gay sex and same-sex marriage?
Given the heated nature of our current debates, it's a question conservative Christians have learned to expect. "Look," we are told, "the Bible condemns eating shellfish, wearing mixed fabrics and any number of other things. Why do you ignore those things and insist that the Bible must be obeyed when it comes to sex?"
On its face, it's a fair question. But it can be posed in two very different ways.
First, the question can be asked to suggest that the Bible's clear condemnation of sexual sins can simply be set aside. The other way of posing the question represents a genuine attempt to understand how the Bible is to be rightly applied to life today.