Dorothy Simpson suggested that those who opposed the rules of Ness Lack Camp and their enforcement erred by "cherry picking" the rules.
Well, there are lots of rules in Leviticus and Ms. Simpson might well daily breech several of them.
Here are just a few that she may have forgotten:
Eating fat (3:17).
Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you've witnessed (5:1).
Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you've been told about (5:1).
Touching an unclean animal (5:2).
Carelessly making an oath (5:4).
Finding lost property and lying about it (6:3).
Letting your hair become unkempt (10:6).
Tearing your clothes (10:6).
Eating an animal which doesn't both chew cud and has a divided hoof ((eg. camel, rabbit, pig) (11:4-7).
Touching the carcass of any of the above (11:8).
Eating - or touching the carcass of - any seafood without fins or scales (11:10-12).
Eating any animal which walks on all four and has paws (11:27).
Having sex with a woman during her period (18:19).
Having sex with your neighbour's wife (18:20).
Stealing (19:11).
Lying (19:11).
Swearing falsely on God's name (19:12).
Cursing the deaf or abusing the blind (19:14).
Seeking revenge or bearing a grudge (19:18).
Mixing fabrics in clothing (19:19).
Practising divination or seeking omens (tut, tut astrology) (19:26).
Trimming your beard (19:27).
Cutting your hair at the sides (19:27).
Getting tattoos (19:28).
Turning to mediums or spiritualists (19:31).
Not standing in the presence of the elderly (19:32).
Cursing your father or mother (punishable by death) (20:9).
Working on the Sabbath (23:3).
Blasphemy (punishable by stoning to death) (24:14).
Inflicting an injury; killing someone else's animal; killing a person must be punished in kind (24:17-22).
Selling land permanently (25:23).
I find that in singling out the rule regarding gay sex, Ms. Simpson is indeed cherry picking.
I am almost certain that - for example - she wears clothing of two fabrics and had probably worked by cooking and turning on a light on the Sabbath. She may like bacon and ham - tsk,tsk.
"Wiping your feet on Christians"? I don't think so given the number of churches I pass daily.
Some Christians seem well able to cherry pick biblical rules to follow and those to ignore.
Willow C. Arune
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