Word: leviticus
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...film begins from the verse from Leviticus condemning homosexuality and ends with a description of secret gay Orthodox and Chasidic communities throughout the world, along with a benediction praising God as a “knower of secrets...
...blessed is that between a man and a woman. In Genesis God created male and female. He didn't create men and men or women and women. He created male and female with an intention of how their lives and sexuality would be expressed mutually. In the book of Leviticus, it speaks of homosexuality in anything but a favorable light. And that's carried over into the New Testament when Paul talks about homosexuality. Scripture never looks at homosexuality as a freeze frame state of life. It's always the sexual expression of same genders. Scripture does not recognize that...
...have created doctrine throughout history have inhabited, for the largest part of the Church’s existence, cultures that have refused to tolerate homosexuality. Additionally, the Bible, which Christians believe is the inspired word of God, contains proscriptions against homosexuality such as those made by the author of Leviticus in the Old Testament and the Apostle Paul in the New. However, Leviticus also prohibits sex during a woman’s menstrual period, and Paul expends much energy insisting that women wear head coverings at worship. Subsequent to the writing of the texts, Church interpretation and common practice have...
...experience remained with him through 1999, when he joined the Jubilee 2000 movement. Citing the Book of Leviticus ("Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year...and ye shall return every man unto his possessions"), Jubilee 2000's aim was to get the U.S. and other wealthy nations, as well as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, to erase the public debt of 52 of the world's poorest countries, most of them in Africa. By wiping $350 billion from their books, these countries would be free to spend money on health care and education, rather than pay down...
...experience remained with him through 1999, when he joined the Jubilee 2000 movement. Citing the Book of Leviticus ("Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year ... and ye shall return every man unto his possessions"), Jubilee 2000's aim was to get the U.S. and other wealthy nations, as well as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, to erase the public debt of 52 of the world's poorest countries, most of them in Africa. By wiping $350 billion from their books, these countries would be free to spend money on health care and education, rather than pay down...