>How many fundamentalist homophobes could
>actually give you chapter and verse on where the bible condemns
>homosexuality, for example?
Fundamentalists are big on quoting scripture. Memorization supplants reflection.
>Rather, the belief in biblical inerrancy
>functions as a kind of imaginary guarantee for things that people
>believe for other reasons; they think homosexuality is evil, and they
>think that they have the infallible word of god on their side, without
>any direct reference to the text of the bible.
There's a lot of chicken or egg here I think.