leviticus

Explicit line against gays lies in Leviticus, and like most of Leviticus should be ignored.

You cling to that straw man, but the fact of the matter is that nobody holds all those laws from Leviticus anymore.

The ones that are not are restricted on what types of meat they can eat (by the religion -- the list is in leviticus).

And fire and brimstone preachers still regularly preach Deuteronomy and Leviticus from pulpits in Christian churches.

The Leviticus 15:19-30 reads a lot like what was described in the article.

For Avraamic religions, there's a direct prohibition of such practices in Leviticus 19:26.

It's easy to impress oneself by reading Leviticus and getting worked up.

I invite everyone to read Leviticus and not laugh at the things that are hell-worthy.

It's probably not a coincidence that Leviticus prohibits shellfish.

Christians are still debating how much crazy stuff from Leviticus they can foist into a modern society and I have no doubt Muslims try to do the same with Sharia.

Case in point: When the Conservative movement announced a few years ago that homosexuality is OK, and that it's even fine to have same-sex weddings, they needed to confront the fact that Leviticus explicitly outlaws homosexual relations.

So, speaking as the thing that goes bump in the night (NRX, HBD, the works), I'd agree that your average anti-gay-marriage person is not reading Leviticus and pulling out political positions based on such.

You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way." (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT) Something else to look at - "Anti-intellectualism in American Life" (Richard Hofstadter).

Because "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death" (Leviticus 20:13) doesn't seem to leave the place for a non-literal interpretation which would not condemn gay sex (without some serious mind bending).

The cancellation of debts is from Leviticus 25: "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

The Gospels are using language that would have been very familiar to Jews who followed the law in Leviticus.

Really, if you listen to some people, you'd think that the bible is all about Genesis 1 and Leviticus, and anything later is pretty much irrelevant (except maybe the Revelations of John).

It's in one of the harshest parts of the bible (Leviticus, I believe), and yet abortion is only a misdemeanor.