by SimianSapiens » Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:55 pm
We don't need a new bible verse for this, the present one does it admirably:
http://drl2.com/blog/2008/04/blessed-are-the-lesbians/
That line from Leviticus is the one most frequently referenced by Christians to justify their opposition (in various forms) to homosexuality. It came up in a discussion over on the Richard Dawkins forums recently, and inspired me to dig into that sentence a little, try to understand what it’s really trying to say.
I was shocked, I tell you, absolutely shocked at what I discovered. But it’s all so clear now.
“You shall not lie with a male as with a woman: it is an abomination.”
You, in this case, is not explicitly specified, so it has to be assumed that you refers to the reader, which could be a man or a woman (unless of course women shouldn’t be able to read… and while misogyny isn’t specifically a sin, we all know that the loving Christian God would never lower himself to such assumptions, right?) So for each reader of this rule, there are a limited number of possibilities:
The reader is male, in which case he clearly can’t lie with another male
The reader is female, in which case she clearly can’t lie with a male (read the passage again – it says so!) By logical extension, then, any sexual contact between male and female is also an abomination.
If the reader is female, Leviticus does not, however, impose any limits on your lying with another woman. Conclusion:
God loves him some hot girl-on-girl action.
We don't need a new bible verse for this, the present one does it admirably: http://drl2.com/blog/2008/04/blessed-are-the-lesbians/
[quote]That line from Leviticus is the one most frequently referenced by Christians to justify their opposition (in various forms) to homosexuality. It came up in a discussion over on the Richard Dawkins forums recently, and inspired me to dig into that sentence a little, try to understand what it’s really trying to say.
I was shocked, I tell you, absolutely shocked at what I discovered. But it’s all so clear now.
“You shall not lie with a male as with a woman: it is an abomination.”
You, in this case, is not explicitly specified, so it has to be assumed that you refers to the reader, which could be a man or a woman (unless of course women shouldn’t be able to read… and while misogyny isn’t specifically a sin, we all know that the loving Christian God would never lower himself to such assumptions, right?) So for each reader of this rule, there are a limited number of possibilities:
The reader is male, in which case he clearly can’t lie with another male
The reader is female, in which case she clearly can’t lie with a male (read the passage again – it says so!) By logical extension, then, any sexual contact between male and female is also an abomination.
If the reader is female, Leviticus does not, however, impose any limits on your lying with another woman. Conclusion:
God loves him some hot girl-on-girl action.[/quote]