I'd scream. You'd scream. You don't want this kind of ice cream.

A family of five entered an Australian pub at Coogee Bay Hotel, one of Sydney's largest and most popular beachfront hotels, just a few minutes south of Bondi Beach. Their popularity just spiked with a different flavor the restaurant owner was not hoping for.

The family complained about noise during a football game. Apparently the chefs didn't like their complaint and out came the chocolate gelato, a rich ice cream, on a platter. The wife took a bite and later reported,

"The stench went through my nostrils, I retched and spat it into the napkin."¹ Officials later confirmed that feces had been mixed into the ice cream. 

False doctrine is like this. It's most dangerous form is not by itself, but mixed in with a hefty amount of truth or cloaked under the banner of "love." Episcopalian Bishop, Marc Andrus, who views gay marriage as a matter of equal rights, demonstrated this tactic perfectly when he argued that the Bible's condemnation of gay sex is outweighed by its call to love one another.² Implication? To call gay sex sin is unloving. Somehow, God got confused and couldn't be consistent. 

1. Reuters, "Pub Row Erupts After Feces Found in Ice Cream," cited October 30, 2008. 

2. CR Online, "Episcopal Bishop Oppose Measure to Ban Gay Marriage," cited October 30, 2008.