I'm not going to get into the rest of this argument because I don't care to but nothing from any religious text should be used in political debate. The reason is that the old testament is God's word according to man. Take everything in any religious text with a grain of salt because it is man's view of what God wants them to do. And if you believe that story verbatim then you also have to believe that there really was an Adam and Eve, a Noah's ark, etc.. You can't just pick bits and pieces out of the old testatment to fit your argument.