07 December 2006

Conservative Rabbis Allow Ordained Gays, Same-Sex Unions

I can't help feeling this is significant for some Christian communities too. While upholding two reasons for not allowing homosexual unions to be legit a third reason is given that could make it legit. It's based in the famous passage in Leviticus:
a third answer allows same-sex ceremonies and ordination of gay men and lesbians, while maintaining a ban on anal sex. It argues that the verse in Leviticus saying "a man shall not lie with a man as with a woman" is unclear, but traditionally was understood to bar only one kind of sex between men. All other prohibitions were "added later on by the rabbis," Dorff told reporters.

Note that 'traditionally' ...
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