I haven’t ignored the story. Nor do I ignore the ways the story is used - obviously, given what I wrote.
I am not sure how the Garden of Eden myth is used homophobically, but I suppose creative homophobes may manage somehow. And yes, the story is used to support hatred of women. But you were focused on a theological issue around punishment for going against God’s order and God punishing because of this. You put this in the context of parents and children. I shrug in relation to that issue and to the story itself, given what I wrote and that the story is not clear.
Sure, I’ve done that in other contexts. Here I answered the question you asked, and you ignore that answer.
I’ll add here, that going directly at the GofE story seems like a really poor tactic. First, attack the mysogeny, for example, then if the G&E story is raised to justify it, show 1) how the story was originally interpreted in Judaism 2) show the wide variety of interpretations in Christianity 3) challenge the logic of punishing current humans for what Adam and Eve did back then 4) point out that even in the Bible it is clear that Adam and Eve are not the only ancestors of humans, so the story must be symbolic and the symbols can be interpreted in a variety of ways 5) get them to name the authority they base their interpretation on - and it will have to be a human- and ask if that human might be fallible.
Of course this will likely not change many minds either- though perhaps a few more than yours - but your approach which starts with the story seems like a weak approach and is itself confused, in part because what you focus on is not necessarily silly but further is not the real weak area of what some Christians do with the Gof E story. I still have a shrug about that.
And the ‘for evil to grow’ statement makes it seems like if one does not take the tactical and hermeneutic position you do one is contributing to the growth of evil’ How propagandistic, how simplifying of a complicated situation with many many different possible good approaches and how hysterical.