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God Made Me A Skeptic
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Yes. The tricky part, of course, is trying to understand whether God meant gays or temple prostitutes, just as we might wonder whether He meant *all* fabric combinations, or only specific combinations of fabric... I understand and respect the decision to say "since we can't be sure, we will read this broadly"; it's the same principle that goes from "do not steep a kid in its mother's milk" to separate pots for dairy and meat. And it's a *reasonable* principle - but it's not the way Christianity generally approaches moral questions.
Indeed. And, furthermore, arguably, only to some of them - for instance, it says nothing at all about lesbians. To make it say such a thing is to reinterpret it in the face of new data, and if we're doing that, it's open season on all sorts of things.
Still, I have friends who believe that homosexual acts are sinful, and who are otherwise fully supportive of non-discriminatory treatment of gays.
In the end, if we're to use Leviticus to show that homosexuality is sinful, we have to accept the whole of the Law; we can't just pick and choose. I have a lot more respect for Jews who choose to continue holding to the whole of the law than I do for televangelists who preach about "[wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth]s" as a way to draw attention away from their scandals.
I still remember the first time I was exposed to that point of view, by someone who commented that, well, of *COURSE* it was a sin, just like mixing fabrics, eating cheeseburgers, or not honoring the Sabbath.
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