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“Conservatives say you cannot pick and choose but that’s exactly what they do because the same texts that condemn homosexuality condemn the eating of shellfish,” he said. “I haven’t heard any conservative churchman campaign against shellfish in the last few years.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
–[Anglican Church of Canada] Bishop Michael Ingham, the New York Times, July 5, 2003<\/p>\n
It is very sad that an argument of such little weight keeps rearing its head but this is where TEC leadership is these days, alas. Nnick Knisely is not happy with Al Mohler and so he enlists a gentleman named Fred Clark to try to combat Mohler’s jettisoning of the shellfish argument<\/a>. Matt Kennedy takes apart the feeble attempt of Mr. Clark over here<\/a>. Please familiarize yourself with all those posts and then take the time to bookmark as well as read through this 2008 blog thread with over 100 comments [which has its origins in a thread from the original T19 blog in 2003]<\/a>, noting most especially the arguments by yours truly and by Chris Seitz in comments #1 and #2.<\/p>\n