How Flexible Can Jewish Law Be?
How Flexible Can Jewish Law Be?
Parashat Acharei Mot (Leviticus 16:1–18:30)
This chapter critiques the homosexual discrimination as noted in the readings of Parashat Acharei Mot of Leviticus: “You shall not lie with a man as a man lies with a woman; it is an abomination.” Science has demonstrated that discrimination against gays and lesbians culminate to higher rates of suicide, smoking, and depression, together with many other threats to the physical and psychological well-being of queer individuals. In addition, given that the Talmud declares that “it is not good for a person to live alone,” and commands one to honor others, it is clearly a dishonor to gays and lesbians to prohibit them to be with their desired partners, and to label their sexual acts as an abomination.
Keywords: homosexual discrimination, gays, lesbians heterosexuals, Talmud, sexual acts
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