Here is the passage in its entirety:
13 If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her 14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” 15 then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin. 16 Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. 17 Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, 18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels[a] of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.
Okay so here's the thing. If you are willing to accept the validity of this statement, and see it through to its "logical" conclusions for any family member or friend that fails to meet its standards, then I will listen with respect to your Biblical based reasons for hating the gays, subjugating women, or claiming that Genesis explains creation.
If not than we both agree that the book written many thousands of years ago has NO bearing on the decisions that we make in these modern times concerning civil rights, education, or how to raise our children.
Before you reference the Bible to support your homophobic, racist, sexist, or anti-science beliefs, you better make damn sure you have read the whole thing.
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