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ben_w 2 hours ago

Any that takes Leviticus seriously will have issues with both food and male homosexuality, though I'd point out that not all denominations of Christianity do so about homosexuality and most Christians expressly reject the bits about food.

People can be weirdly selective about such things, which is why I've not seen any suggestion by current christians that sacrificing a bird and dipping another bird in it's blood and then then shaking the blood soaked bird on the patient is a valid cure for leprosy. (Chapter 14:1-7)

Just realised that the text in Leveticus if taken literally says women are not allowed to have straight sex, only gay sex:

"""You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination""" - Leviticus 18:22

That said, translations are more of an art than a science, that's why there are so many of them.

It might instead be interpreted as a statement against being bisexual like me, where either gay or straight is fine but doing both is what the writer (from the Watsonian perspective, god) doesn't like.