What happens today to the prohibitions of Leviticus?
Article published on the blog Lesbicathho (France) on August 19, 2008, freely translated by Marco Galvagno
When you make a Research on the prohibitions of Levitico In a famous search engine there are many articles, often inflamed, which deal with the condemnation of homosexuality. The main cause, of course, is that both members of the clergy and homophobic politicians are based on this reference to justify their attitude: "You will not lay with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination“. Just remember the parliamentary debate on the Pacs and Christine Boutin who branded a Bible in the parliamentary hemicycle ... but the references to the other prohibitions promulgated by Levitico are rare, which very often seem to have fallen into the oblivion, except for the most evident who do nothing but appeal to common sense, even in the eyes of the most conservatives. Let's have a while with the biblical diet!
Reading Levitico 11: 1-3 we learn that the quadrupeds that live on earth are prohibited "who have a split hoof and ruminating". In the concrete, the pig, the hare, the rabbit, the horse and the camel are prohibited here. The severe application of this prohibition if nothing else would make the Knight rejoice which is in me and who actively beats against the Hippophagia. Maybe I should invoke the restoration of this sacred disposition! But I should also deprive myself of the sausages of Strasbourg, the Italian salami and the rabbit owl [rabbit meat plate cooked in red wine with onions and aromas NDT].
A little further on, in Levitico 11: 9 we read: "Among the animals that live in the water, in the lakes, in the seas and rivers you can eat those who have fins and flakes". With other words, seafood and molluscs are prohibited. The mussels with the chips and oysters of the veil are at risk. We reassure us to see the Catholic archbishop of Bordeaux who during the festival of Assumption tasties the oysters of the Arcachon bay!
Original text: The Homosexualité dans le lévitique (2): et les autres interdits?
