For most rational people, it's a given that the Bible was composed by a number of different authors over a period of time. Well, it looks like Leviticus wasn't immune:
Take that, Tony Perkins.
Looks like somebody way back when had issues.
The original version of Leviticus expressly permitted gay sex, a Biblical scholar writes in the New York Times.
Idan Dershowitz is a fellow at Harvard and has studied the development of the Old Testament carefully, including Leviticus 20:13 which reads that “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.”
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“There is good evidence that an earlier version of the laws in Leviticus 18 permitted sex between men,” he argues. “In addition to having the prohibition against same-sex relations added to it, the earlier text, I believe, was revised in an attempt to obscure any implication that same-sex relations had once been permissible.”
Take that, Tony Perkins.
Looks like somebody way back when had issues.
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