The use of Leviticus to condemn and reject homosexuals is obviously a hypocritical selective use of the Bible against gays and lesbians. Nobody today tries to keep the laws in Leviticus.
Look at Leviticus 11:1-12, where all unclean animals are forbidden as food, including:
rabbits
pigs
shellfish,
such as oysters, shrimp, lobsters, crabs, clams
Leviticus 20:25 demands that "you are to make a distinction between the clean and unclean animal and between the unclean and clean bird; and you shall not make yourself an abomination by animal or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean." You can eat some insects like locusts (grasshoppers), but not others.
Leviticus 12:1-8 declares that a woman is unclean for 33 days after giving birth to a boy and for 66 days after giving birth to a girl and goes on to demand that certain animals must be offered as a burnt offering and a sin offering for cleansing. Nobody today who claims to be a Christian tries to keep these laws, and few people even know about them.
Leviticus 18:19 forbids:
a husband from having sex with his wife during her menstrual
period
Leviticus 19:19 forbids:
- mixed breeding of various kinds of cattle
- sowing various kinds of seeds in your field
- wearing a garment made from two kinds of material mixed
together
Leviticus 19:27 demands that:
"you shall not round off the side-growth of your heads,
nor harm the edges of your beard."
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