"And definitely whitewash David and Jonathan’s relationship. They were just friends! Really good friends."

And how about David and King Saul? David, a "beautiful youth," was called into Saul's bed chamber many times at night to soothe the king?

I mean, you know how that read to contemporaries. David was Saul's catamite. Then Saul's son Jonathan became enamored of David, which made the king intensely jealous.

Historical critical scholars say this is the obvious narrative, and that people who read it when it first was written down (during the Babylonian exile where such practices were common in the Babylonian Court) would have understood that narrative without question.

But that's a sidetrack.

What I don't understand is why conservative Christians insist they must impose their religious beliefs and practices on other Americans.

All their talk of liberty boils down to snatching liberty from people who practice different faiths or no faiths.