Why You Shouldn't Get Your Theological Arguements From A Television Show

Because if you do you wind up writing silly tripe such as this about protests over the new British "sexual orientation regulations" which...

"...outlaws discrimination in the provision of services on the grounds of sexual orientation. It will, for example, stop a Christian bed-and-breakfast owner refusing a gay couple a double room because it goes against his or her religious beliefs."

You see Christians who oppose this bill have it all wrong according to Gareth McLean of the Red Guardian...

"Leviticus 18:22 states that homosexuality is an abomination.
...around the beginning of the Old Testament, it also says you can put people to death for working on the Sabbath and that slavery is acceptable. Or at least, they don't any more. In The West Wing, President Bartlett says it all so much more eloquently than I and he really throws into stark relief the deployment of selective quotation to justify bigotry and intolerance."

Now far be it from me to quibble about religion with Bishop Sheen (Martin Sheen that is) but that supposedly telling point of dinner party religious debate only holds up if you happen to be arguing with an Orthodox Jew.
For all a Christian has to do is point out that there is something called the New Testament that trumps the Old Testament when there is disagreement between the two.
And lo and behold if it doesn't say in the Pauline Epistles that many of the Levitical laws are not applicable to being a Christian. These same Epistles also mention in Romans 1...

[26] For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, [27] and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Which is a verse you rarely hear mentioned in the Media today for the very good reason that it explodes poor reasoning that you can only get away with if your the fictional President of the United States......or a writer for the Guardian.