You may already be familiar with some of this. In an October 2000 episode of the White House drama The West Wing, President Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen, uses such knowledge to completely destroy the Biblical justifications for homophobia put forward by, appropriately enough, a right-wing talk-show host. His brilliant speech was based upon a letter sent to a real-life American one, Laura Schlessinger, that subsequently went viral on the internet. A listener sent me the ‘Dr Laura’
