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Comment author: Yosarian2 10 February 2014 08:23:33PM 0 points [-]

That's not necessarily an inconstant view, by the way; most Christians follow the teachings of Paul where he said that most of the old testament "ritual purity" rules (keeping kosher, circumcision, ect) do not apply to Christians (for theological reasons that probably aren't worth going into here), but that old testament "ethical teachings" do still apply.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 February 2014 03:39:55PM 0 points [-]

Sure, but how do people know where the gerrymandered border between ritual purity and ethical teachings is, so that homosexuality is in the latter?

Comment author: Yosarian2 24 February 2014 01:25:33AM 0 points [-]

(nods) That's actually an argument used by the more moderate Christian groups (some of the "mainline Protestant" churches, for example) who don't have a problem with gay people and want to allow things like gay marriage in their church