When we filed for our marriage license, the state of Colorado asked Marcus and I if we were first cousins. "No" - but apparently it's legal in CO to marry your cousin -they just want to keep track of it if that's the case. With this new information, my loving fiance paused....looked at me, and said "you know, my cousin Jamie is a real looker. Now that I know it would be legal..." Yeah, he's a real cut-up.
Two main things strike me in this passage. First - that this is one of the places in the Bible most cited against homosexuality. Really - and it's in Leviticus....like we actually follow all of this other stuff. Just 12 verses later (v. 25) we're being reminded that we're only allowed to eat Kosher (clean animals, meat separate from dairy). There's stuff in this chapter that I agree with (obviously) but you can't use part of the chapter and ignore another part.
Second - a great deal of this chapter seems to take things out on victims more than I'm comfortable with. Women are killed along with the men who did wrong in many cases - and we all know there's a good chance that it wasn't always consentual sex. Even animals are killed along with the wrongdoers...and that certainly wasn't consentual.
Lovin' Leviticus...
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So, how would CO track this?
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Not a story I've ever seen before...or thought about...or pondered might exist. Just happened upon it, did you?
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