Posted By:
Jim VBRichard,
If you are a teacher, you are smart enough to know that the Bible was written 2000+ years ago as a collection of parables. It is NOT a scientific tome. Learn from the stories. Don't take them literally.
If you do, then the punishment for homosexuality must be the death penalty.
Leviticus 20:13 "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives."
Working a card show on the Sabbath? Death!
Exodus 35:1-2 On six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be sacred to you as the sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on that day shall be put to death."
And touching a football or eating a BLT? Well.. maybe not death, but you aren "clean" anymore.
Leviticus 11:7-8 "which does indeed have hoofs and is cloven-footed, but does not chew the cud and is therefore unclean for you. [8] Their flesh you shall not eat, and their dead bodies you shall not touch; they are unclean for you."
Leviticus 11:24-25 "Such is the uncleanness that you contract, that everyone who touches their dead bodies shall be unclean until evening, [25] and everyone who picks up any part of their dead bodies shall wash his garments and be unclean until evening."