It is all an immoral hoax. On one side is the homosexual CEO of the world's largest company, Tim Cook, net worth $400m, who was baptized in a Evangelical church, who opposes religious freedom, and with him, a growing phalanx of Fortune 500 companies. On the other side is a 70-year-old grandma florist, standing to lose her business and her home, because she refuses to promote same sex marriage. Cook hypocritically denounces a “very dangerous wave of legislation” that will unleash on society “harmful” religious liberty and “could lead to separate water fountains for gays in Indiana.” This hypocritical charade, of course, is a lie. What is really sought is not free water fountains but the removal of any limit on this insatiable lust for power, seeking not “social justice” but a total silencing of the truth.

One clear implication from Bell’s interpretation is that there is no place in inspired Scripture for singleness or celibacy, and that Jesus himself doubtless would have done better, speaking of “love,” “commitment” and sacrifice” with a companion to do the work he came to do. Moreover, Jesus was surely wrong in what he taught about the value of singleness (Matthew 19:11-12).