Word: leviticus
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...taken out of Man.' Therefore a man leaves his father and cleaves to his wife and they become one flesh." There is no mention made of a man leaving his parents to be with another man. Indeed, the Old Testament penalty for homosexual sex is very harsh. Leviticus 20:13 declares, "If a man lies with a male as with a woman both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them." However, the teachings of Christ in the New Testament tell Christians to deal with the sins of others with forgiveness...
...ALSO LIE WITH MANKIND, AS HE LIETH WITH A WOMAN, BOTH OF THEM HAVE COMMITTED AN ABOMINATION. --Leviticus 20:13 The primary argument against same-sex marriage is really a religious animus against homosexuality. In short, homosexuality is a grave sin in the eyes of God and should not be condoned or comforted by the mystical union of marriage, which is a covenant with God. Opponents of same-sex marriage point to the fact that disapproval of homosexual behavior is one of the most deeply rooted and consistent moral teachings in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions...
...stuck, then, for our morality gurus with Bill Bennett and Leviticus? Not necessarily. Carter could have advanced the cause of a secular morality if he'd bothered to give a little content to Step 1. Moral reflection, if it is to lead to moral results, has to consist of an exhaustive and empathetic assessment of the impact of one's actions on others, including even the despised and the outcast. If we define moral reflection this way, some good people might indeed be pro-choice and some might be pro-life, but none could be pro-genocide...
...English were virtually nonexistent before the mid-17th century, when the first dictionaries were issued. Words and phrases that are today considered vulgar expressions for bodily and sexual functions were once common currency among men and women of all classes. The King James version of the Bible referred in Leviticus to "stones" (for testicles); the Second Book of Kings used the common four- letter word for urine. Chaucer deployed 200 separate oaths in Canterbury Tales. And did anybody give a fiddler's intercourse about the proprieties? Dreck no! There weren't any proprieties. Everybody was vulgar; so nobody was vulgar...
...verse "His blood be on us and on our children" is not a self-inflicted curse at all but an acknowledgment in terms of scriptural law that this specific group of Jews was willing to be responsible before God for an execution that it believed to be justified. In Leviticus, the phrase "their blood is upon them" is used repeatedly when the death penalty is prescribed...